Posted by: cornstalk
on November 13, 2003 11:27 PM
Concerning the allegedly speeded-up SuSE boot process, I can attest that there was a big improvement between 8.1 and 8.2. Perhaps SuSE brags about 9 relative to older versions in general, not just relative to 8.2.
I have no basis for comparision, because I have always been a SuSE user (starting with 6.4), but I think that SuSE does give you an easy install and system management tools that are easy to use.
I have found, however, that as I have learned more about Linux, I have not been as accepting of SuSE's defaults (for example, I now use a window manager, Ion, that SuSE does not even supply) or as willing to rely on YAST2, the system management tool. These days I prefer to do more for myself. I would particularly appreciate, some day, a version of YAST2 that writes to a file a full report of which files it edited and how. This would be a tremendous help in understanding HOW system administration is being carried out. As it is, YAST2 is a gui bolted on top of a black box -- rather like the Windows "control panel," and in many respects, just as annoying.
Something rather nice about SuSE is that you can configure it to phone home every night and install the latest patches to everything that you have installed.
But it seems funny that every time you reconfigure something or install a new package, you have to run SuSEconfig, which reconfigures just about every system that you have, e.g. networking, printing, and so forth, even if all you did was tweak your monitor settings. It's no big deal, I suppose, but it's inelegant.
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Posted by: cornstalk on November 13, 2003 11:27 PMI have no basis for comparision, because I have always been a SuSE user (starting with 6.4), but I think that SuSE does give you an easy install and system management tools that are easy to use.
I have found, however, that as I have learned more about Linux, I have not been as accepting of SuSE's defaults (for example, I now use a window manager, Ion, that SuSE does not even supply) or as willing to rely on YAST2, the system management tool. These days I prefer to do more for myself. I would particularly appreciate, some day, a version of YAST2 that writes to a file a full report of which files it edited and how. This would be a tremendous help in understanding HOW system administration is being carried out. As it is, YAST2 is a gui bolted on top of a black box -- rather like the Windows "control panel," and in many respects, just as annoying.
Something rather nice about SuSE is that you can configure it to phone home every night and install the latest patches to everything that you have installed.
But it seems funny that every time you reconfigure something or install a new package, you have to run SuSEconfig, which reconfigures just about every system that you have, e.g. networking, printing, and so forth, even if all you did was tweak your monitor settings. It's no big deal, I suppose, but it's inelegant.
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