Re: Shouldn't we abandon SUSE?

On Mon, 13 Nov 2006, soren121 <doodle62@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:-


o2se3tak wrote:
After the recent fiasco generated by Novell getting into an agreement
with Microsoft and the whole Open Source Community planning to fight
Novell both in and outside the court, will it be sensible to shift over
to another Linux distribution? There are other distributions that are as
good or better that SUSE so which will be best one to migrate to?

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Never. I've tried 3 different distro's and wasted 27 CD's and SUSE is
the best.

I wouldn't call them wasted CDs[0], since they've allowed you to
experience other versions, even if only briefly, showing you other ways
to do the same thing and letting you choose the way you prefer.

<OT>
I've recently tried Mandriva 2007. I wasn't impressed with it at all. It
didn't feel right, I didn't like the method of adding packages and, as a
consequence, rapidly replaced it.

The replacement is Fedora Core 5. I'm still not overly impressed with
the package management, but I think it's fairly similar to the way YaST
is heading[1]. It still sucks when compared to YaST, since I like all
the system management tools to be accessible through the one front end,
but at least it is quite usable.

I really do dislike the screen displayed by SUSE during the boot
process. Here you have the choice between either seeing everything as it
happens, or you get one that gives you no feedback except some for the
series of little circles at the bottom of the screen.

OTOH, FC5 shows a progress bar and what part of the process is
occurring. There's also the option to display everything as it happens,
just like when you press F2 during the SUSE boot process. The difference
here is that FC5 has the option of hiding it again. This is something I
quite like[2].

However, once the process has finished and you're at the login screen,
I'm torn between the SUSE (kdm) login screen where you get to see the
users and the FC5 login screen where you don't. SUSE scores with ease of
use, while FC5 scores on security. Unfortunately, there's not a great
deal that can be done to make things easy to use and secure.
</OT>


[0] Although I'd have most likely used rewritable CDs unless I intended
to keep them, and burnt the ISO images onto a DVD as a permanent backup.

[1] FC5 seems to use a similar system to the patterns that have been
introduced during the 10.2 testing process.

[2] And I might eventually be motivated to file a feature request in the
bugzilla.

Regards,
David Bolt

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