On Fri, Sep 09, 2005 at 09:00:59AM -0600, Eric Jensen wrote: > Barry Roberts wrote: > > >Before I try to figure out YAST and YOU again, does anybody know how > >it compares to apt, apt4rpm or yum? > > > > > > > YAST and YOU work quite well. I'll always be a fan of apt because of > it's speed, but YAST works just as well as apt with Synaptics.
Oh good. That's what was always lacking in previous non-commercail (ftp) versions of SuSE. They just nuver worked for me. It worked ok for paid versions, but all of those I had were behind a very restrictive firewall, so I could play with it, but not use it on any of the officially licensed servers. > >Can anybody compare openSUSE with, say Fedora Core or Ubuntu for > >novice computer users? > > > I've used Ubuntu and Fedora a lot and I like Suse more, not tremendously > more but I would pick it over those for a workstation any day. My > not-so-savy folks tried moving to Linux with Fedora, Mandrake, Ubuntu, > and Suse. They had a very hard time until they tried Fedora and Suse. > They like Suse better, but Fedora is a fairly close 2nd. Perfect. A lot of people around here know who Novell is, so I would love to be able to give them something that is at least associated with Novell, even if it's not a fully supported product.. Now if people would just start BitTorrent'ing RC1. Mine's been running for 24 hours now, and it still says it has 52 hours left. Thanks, Barry .-----------------------------------. | This has been a P.L.U.G. mailing. | | Don't Fear the Penguin. | | IRC: #utah at irc.freenode.net | `-----------------------------------'
