Re: Suse is the best

From: Michel Catudal (_at_)
Date: 11/26/05 

Date: Sat, 26 Nov 2005 12:31:39 -0500

Le Sat, 26 Nov 2005 18:01:05 +0100, mst a écrit :

> On Sat, 26 Nov 2005 08:48:52 -0500 Michel Catudal <mcatudal @ comcast.net> wrote:
>
>> This is not enough I want full control of the OS as a developer. In most
>> case I run only as a user but I want to be able to have full control of
>> the PC when I need to.
>
> That's what Gentoo and LFS is for :)

How different is Gentoo from Ubuntu or Debian?
One thing I dislike about Debian and all their derivatives is the fact
that if I disable the boot on graphic I can not run the gnome GUI by
just typing startx. On SuSE, slackware and Redhat all I have to do
is switch from init 5 to init 3 and it boots to the text mode.
On debian there is some trojan that bypass that. If I remove that
trojan that disables the GUI. I can start KDE but not gnome.
After a Sarge install I made it such that it would boot in text mode and
I had no screen. I had to fix grub with a boot on Fedora to get it to work
correctly. It looks like someone at Debian has no clue how to write a
decent grub start up script. They might want to look at how SuSE, Redhat
and the others do them.

I do a lot of work on the console with no GUI so I need a fully functional
console which is not easily done with a Debian distribution.

When I did boot on the GUI I came in some serious problems login in. I
think I know where the problem is now. It may have the same issue as SuSE
used to have during the installation. They sort of fix it, still with the
wrong keyboard but at least they use a QWERTY keyboard. What happened with
SuSE was that during the installation, if I choose French they would use
the AZERTY keyboard but use the one I choose for login after the
installation. It turned out that if I didn't choose letters that are at
the same place on both keyboards I could not login. Sarge did have the
option to automatically boot without password but that doesn't resolve the
actual problem.
SuSE still has that stupid keyboard problem. Yesterday I had to boot on
rescue to partition a hard disk so I could install PC Dos, Win XP and SuSE
10 for my son and I was stuck with an azerty keyboard. It took me a few
minutes to figure out where the / was. The infuriating part was that you
can't have quick fingers with fdisk and an azerty keyboard. When I meant
to type w I type some bull*** character and didn't realize that before
I quit. I had to redo the whole partitioning again. That was time for
cursing. Also when you want to quit, pressing on a instead of q is not a
good thing.

I was so pissed off with the obnoxious behavior of Sarge that I said ***
that Debian *** and tossed all my CDs of Debian or other Debian
derivatives to the trash. I could not figure out why so many people like
it.

I may give it another look when I get more time to see if I can change
those things that I hate so much about Debian. A good challenge ...
With Ubuntu, there is got to be a way to change the install so it doesn't
do the bull*** it does about the root login. Does anyone know which
script would be the one to modify? 

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