Re: Two day experiment

On Sun, 29 Apr 2007 11:26:48 -0500, Rajko M. wrote:

houghi wrote:

How does it compare to YaST and/or smart?

I have feeling that they take care only of one aspect, and that is to
prevent new user to make mistake, removing any "dangerous" applications. If
one needs just basic productivity and is satisfied with slow default
graphic driver than Ubuntu etc. is fine.

First thing that I wanted is faster graphic (nvidia FX 5200) and here is the
search result:
nvidia -- nothing
gcc -- nothing
mc -- nothing
... > 2 hours later ...
yast -- nothing !!

I'm using SUSE as my main system, and only recently experimented with
Feisty (Ubuntu 7.04), so I don't claim to be an Ubuntu guru, but... There
are hits in Synaptic for every instance you mentioned, except for Yast,
of course. Synaptic, based on debian, offers 21138 packages where a
standard installation uses a 1163 of them. In my opinion, this is a
full-fledged linux distribution, not a toy for kids, but it's something
different (i.e. not SUSE). Of course it'll be something less stable due to
the release cycle that is so short, then again it seems solid enough. The
comparison with Yast / installation and synaptic? Search, click and wait.
Seems the same. And, of course, aptitude and apt-get exist for the CLI
users.

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