Linked by Leo Spalteholz on Wed 9th Jun 2004 07:59 UTC
I'm sure everyone is sick of reading reviews of Suse 9.1 by now but perhaps this one is a little different. This is not an ordinary review in the sense that I don't provide lots of colourful screenshots, or ramble on endlessly about the included software versions and other trivial things. Written from the point of view of a Debian user trying to switch to an "easier" distribution, I concentrated on how Suse stacks up compared to some of the traditional Debian strengths.
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"its manages configs and packages, cool, what i say is that the quality of how it does it (the user side and code quality) is just miserable"
Yep I had some weird behaviour when configuring my network card but overall I trust it more than I would trust the Mandrake Control Center although it's not an inconditional trust!. Maybe by open sourcing it a dev group will formed around YAST ready to tackle some of its shortcomings.
It seems that a lot of the configuration tools out there uses python, perl or some other combinations and they feel slugish.
I don't think it's because they are the best tools for the job but rather the developer of the day assigned to these tools prefered one language over the other.
So the well known "use the best tool for the job" becomes irrelevant.
To some extend I doubt in Redmond a developer will decide to use python or perl over C just because he/she feels like it!
(as much as I dislike MS you need some consistency and policy to move forward).