On Thu, 2003-11-13 at 20:19, Collins Richey wrote: > And the one missing element in RH-centric distros is a common repository of RPMs > for anything outside the core products. I've gotten spoiled by the gentoo > repository. Given the size of their CD set, I would presume that SuSE is much > better than RH in this respect.
And SuSE have improved. I first tried 7.2. Damn but there were alot of packages. However, quite a few did not run. Many simply dumped core. Or the silent Linux equivalent. I tried again with 8.2, and there are still a ton of applications. But most now seem to work (same hardware). I have just started with SuSE 9, and it also seems solid. The only bad thing I have experienced is that updating from 8.2 to 9 does not work. There is an rpm (filesystem or some such thing) which rpm's cpio claimed was trying to install /usr/lib/X11 as a file, when it is already a directory. Hosed the system. I tried the recovery mode, which looked promising. Ended up doing a clean install. That is what I would normally do in a production system anyway. That aside, so far so good. Tomorrow we start our product testing on it. Hope the network holds up... -- Roger Oberholtzer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc -> http://smtp.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
