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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"access to apt repositories is no use if the packages in there aren't made for your distribution"
You have just discovered the hot water: did you follow my link and did you notice that it was about apt *for SuSe*?
Nope I didn't, but I did now. Great effort!
But what's the point? Yast already provides the functionality that apt does, with good X and ncurses interfaces.
Rather than providing existing packages through a new installer, the effort would better be spent on a Yast repository with stuff that SuSE doesn't provide. The Packman archive is nice, but it would be great if it could be accessed through Yast.