Jerry Feldman said:
> Somethimes, the choice of distros gets into a religious war. A couple of
> reasons I personally favor SuSE is that I can do virtually all my system
> admin work using YaST. (Specifically YaST1). Additionally, YaST can be
> used to check updates and patches. You navigate down to the Install
> Packages menu. You are prompted for source. Select ftp, and the SuSE
> ftp update site for your release is the default. The update site is grouped
> into directories similar to the initial installation. Once in a directory, all
> packages are shown with their status:
> Blank - not installed on your system
> o - You have an older package installed
> i - This package is installed.
>
Just goes to show why it's great that Linux has so much choice. I personally
found I detested YaST. Not that it was necessarily bad technically, just that
I personally felt like I was always fighting it. I find apt and debian an
almost natural thing (OK, not really, but much more along the way I think).
That's why I recommend to people they try out a lot of different distros.
There is no "one" distro. Instead, you have to find the one that works the
way you do. Whichever one it is.
jeff
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