Re: [SLE] SUSE 9.3: buggy as hell

From: Allen (gorebofh_at_comcast.net)
Date: 05/08/05

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    On Fri, May 06, 2005 at 07:24:31PM -0700, Preston Crawford wrote:
    > On Fri, 2005-05-06 at 18:47 -0700, Ben Rosenberg wrote:
    > > On 5/6/05, Preston Crawford <me@prestoncrawford.com> wrote:
    > > > That's very odd. And I guess it proves the point of some other posters
    > > > here, that sometimes some people have bugs that others never ever see.
    > > > Because I've never seen this one. 9.2 has been very smooth for me, on
    > > > the balance.
    > >
    > > Yeah. I kind of figured no one had seen this problem because I posted
    > > to the list a couple times about it and no one responded. :)
    > >
    > > Doesn't matter now.. 9.2 is a bad memory for me.
    >
    > Weird. I'm scared to go to 9.3, personally. I've even thought about NLD.
    > $50 and all. I was thinking about this yesterday and maybe I do need to
    > adopt a mindset similar to what another poster said when they said they
    > install all their own major software. Maybe I just need to find a distro
    > with a solid kernel, GUI and userland and then just install my own
    > software. I kind of did this when I ran Fedora. Relied on them for the
    > basic distro functionality such as the Desktop Manager, web browser,
    > mail client, etc. then installed my own Apache, MySQL, Java, Tomcat,
    > etc.
    >
    > > > the fact that suddenly I had 20 libraries I may never need sitting on my
    > > > machine taking up space. I'll always prefer binary packaging.

    pkg_add -r

    > > We tested FreeBSD with the custom software we are build and Linux was
    > > about 30% faster... which hacked off one of my co-workers who is a
    > > freeBSD person. *laugh*
    >
    > That doesn't shock me. I found it fast for some things, but I've met
    > many in the FreeBSD community who admit it's slower. They'll say it's
    > because of the task switching in FreeBSD being bad and I think they're
    > right. 5.x may be better and faster. But it's still true, regardless of
    > cause.

    5.X is mainly for SMP. The toher improvements they need to concentrate
    with are hardware support / drivers, and something for updates better than
    what they have now.

     
    > > One can do pkgs with Gentoo but then what would be the point to using
    > > it? If one uses the pkgs then it's just an infant Linux distro with a
    > > way smaller userbase the SUSE or RH. :)

    I won't even start on Gentoo. I can't stand it, or their user base.

     
    > Totally.
    >
    > Preston
    >
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