[ale] New install of SuSE

Geoffrey esoteric at 3times25.net
Fri Feb 20 07:44:39 EST 2004


Trey Sizemore wrote:
> On Thu, 2004-02-19 at 16:14, Chris Fowler wrote:
> 
>>This may be flamebait but the "community" part of Fedora Core scares me.
>>We spend a lot of time getting a distribution to work with our
>>development environment.  If it is not backed by a commercial
>>organization we may experience problems in the future.  We may not.
>>Who knows.  
>>
>>I'm loading SuSE via FTP and will give it a try.  If I do not like it
>>then I'm going to load Fedora Core #2.
>>
>>I might want to begin downloading ISO's just in case ;)
> 
> 
> Check out this page to get you up-and-running with apt-get for SUSE.  By
> far the easiest way to keep the machine up-to-date.

Is this based on personal experience?  What do you have against yast? I 
find yast to be superior to any update method I've seen in any 
distribution.  I'd suggest pursuing the 'native' method for the 
distribution, before jumping to something else.

-- 
Until later, Geoffrey                     Registered Linux User #108567
Building secure systems inspite of Microsoft



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