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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"not only yast, but simply:
rpm -i blabla.rpm
rpm -i *.rpm -- this will tell you about missing dependencies as well, if you have one/a bunch of RPMs and something is missing...
how is this different to any other rpm distro?"
This is different from any rpm distro in that urpmi will resolve dependencies for you and download them from an online repository. I also have not seen a large repository of rpms such as Mandrake's contrib or plf which you can find at easyurpmi.org.
If there is, please enligthen me. I have been using Linux for years, you don't have to explain to me that rpm -i package will install it, but if you can give me more Suse specific info, I'll be thankful.
Notice that no one has answer my question about the default user permissions. And yes I can manually assign groups and so forth, but it's a pain in the ass when you are dealing with hundreds of users, particularly when you want a default /etc/skel setup that makes sense.