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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Thanks for the info. I am new to Suse.
Apologies for being a bit rude. But next time please use "I don't know a way" rather than "there is no way".
Btw, what's your objection to the ncurses interface? Yes, "yast -i" will be faster if you know what you require, but the menu system lets you browse what's available when you're not quite sure.
This still does not resolve the issue of adding additional non-suse repositories to my installation sources.
Haven't got a SuSE box to hand, so I'm not sure. But there's certainly a screen in the graphical and ncurses interfaces to set your installation source(s). I don't know of any non-SuSE repositories though.
There's 4 GB of stuff in the SuSE FTP repository (excluding sources). If you can't find what you look for in there, Packman offers additional packages specifically for SuSE, although unfortunately not in the form of a yast-repository. And of course there's always install-from-source ...