SUSE Linux 10.1 Alpha 2 is ready for testing. Improvements and updates over alpha 1 include KDE 3.5 Beta 2, GNOME 2.11.1 (according to the announcement that is; 2.12.1 is more likely), smartpm, and OpenOffice.org 2.0 RC3. This alpha is available for x86, x86-64 (AMD64/EM64T), and PowerPC. Download locations, including torrents, are listed in the release announcement.
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* APT successor SMART is provided in the smart rpm package. It can be used like apt-get using apt or YUM package repositories (all inst-source directories contain YUM meta data)
Great! Another package manager. Just what Linux needs!
Why not adopt yum or apt instead which already works great on suse?
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If you visit the smartpm website you will notice who are the people contributing to it: Ubuntu (Canonical), Conectiva (now Mandriva, YUM original developer, APT developers, etc and i suppose now SUSE/OpenSUSE. In otehr wordfs is a good idea if all those Package manager coalesce into one or into very few one
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You need to read up on smart... SMART unifies the pack managers. It can use repositories from all of them, It can then dynamically sort dependencies, and even find the fastest download connection.. IMHO Smart is the way to go,, it doesnt compete or obsolete any of the others, It gives them one unified interface.
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SUSE Does, or DID have yum AND apt AND YaST and now SMART. IP 69.119...is correct...eventually something in the vein of SMART will replace these. As a matter of fact, a close reading will show that SMART will be REPLACING apt. I think that there is a lot of potential here.....
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Smart makes sense for SUSE - they don't have a (decent) legacy command line package manager, their users have unofficially used the apt RPM port for ages, but that is now unmaintained and the Conectiva guys who wrote it have moved on to developing smart instead. So it's the sensible thing for them to pick, if they actually want to have a decent high-level command line package manager (which is one of the big things SUSE has been missing for years). It's not a 'new' thing, it's been around a while now. And it's a lot better than yum.
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It is amazing to see just how much effort is put in to the myrid package managers on Linux all just so:
1) Each distro can arrange and name their core file system whatever way the choose - for absolutely no end user benefit
2) Each software package can dump its files all over the file system - for absolutely no end user benefit
Ain't 'choice' great!
Sigh...www.apple.com
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It is amazing to see just how much effort is put in to the myrid package managers on Linux all just so:
So fun to watch Anonymous trolls like you rant, as you obviously don't have a clue of what you are talking about.
1) Each distro can arrange and name their core file system whatever way the choose - for absolutely no end user benefit
Well yes of course they can, as their decision how to make it. Strangely nobody does, they do it nearly identical. They all follow the LFS, or close to it in all the important parts. And the LFS is strangely similar to the way UNIX filesystems have been done for years, making a switch to or from nearly every *NIX out there easy. Talk about compability.
2) Each software package can dump its files all over the file system - for absolutely no end user benefit
But they are not, they are placed and grouped in a consistent locical manner. Actually making it easier for the users and administrators. And it's very simple, and you really don't need to know where everyting are located.
The configurations files are in /etc, or if it's user configurations it's in the users directory as a hidden file or subdir. All the users file are also located there, in /home/$usr btw. No need to hunt for them. And the executables or programs as you may call them are in the PATH so no need to hunt for them either. The helpfiels and documentation are reachable trough the help reader or placed in the man and info path, still no need to know where they are.
Ain't 'choice' great!
Yes, different systems for different needs. Good to be able to choose the system that fit best.
Sigh...www.apple.com
As filesystem comes it's more or less the same. They have blocked easy access to some parts and renamed others, but the structure is not very different. Besides you have no need to know where your files are installed on OS X either, so it's a rather pointless comment.
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