On Wed, 7 Apr 1999, Dan Tudor wrote:
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> Configuration tool which is pretty cool (so far as I've seen). Can you convince
> me that I made a wise choice betting on SuSE? ... (by the way, what SuSE
> initials stand for?)
According to Lenz' FAQ, "SuSE" stands for "Gesellschaft f�r Software- und
Systementwicklung mbH" or "Company for Software- and System-Development"
You can find the FAQ here
http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/
and I have no idea why there is no link to this FAQ from www.suse.de/e.
(But then again, where did the link to the info page about 6.0 go when
they updated that page a couple of days ago? The German page is much
better than the English one... :-( )
Well, about RH vs SuSE, I think it has a lot to do with personal taste.
I needed a Linux distribution for some PCs that were to be used by
people from different institutes here. At the time, SuSE 6.0 was just
released and semmed the most up to date.
Also, YaST and /etc/rc.config turned out to be great features during the
configuration, and NIS and autofs were up and running within a couple of
minutes.
All the bundled applications means a lot to me, since there are so many
people that will use these boxes for different purposes.
You mention RH's linuxconf, but I think (?) you can use linuxconf instead
of YaST under SuSE if you want to, but then you'll have to disable
YaST/SuSEConfig in /etc/rc.config. YaST will override the settings made by
linuxconf. You can find linuxconf here:
http://linuxconf.compiled.com/linuxconf/
But of course SuSE isn't perfect either.
Some people find /etc/csh.cshrc too large and confusing under SuSE,
and some don't like the /etc/rc.config feature because they come from
other systems where they had to configure things manually. They like to be
in control, and they're not really sure about what the SuSE scripts
actually do.
Hmm. I'll try to find something that _really_ annoys me about SuSE
tomorrow. :-)
Bottom line is, people will never agree on these things, so the only way
for you to find out what your favourite is, is to try them all (!) and
decide for yourself.
Just my 2 cents etc-etc...
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