Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Mon 7th Oct 2002 07:27 UTC
If there are two things in this apartment that I don't like, that would first be the dog upstairs which barks at 5 AM almost every morning, and the fact that UPS almost never deliver things on our door. They never bother to check if we are in. The SuSE people were very kind to send us the Professional version of SuSE 8.1, but unfortunately, I received it 10 days later after it arrived in the apartment's complex. But now we got it here, we gave it a spin for almost a week, and here is what we think about it.
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SuSE loaded LILO in graphical mode.....
Why not grub? Grub is sooooo much better these days. Drives me nuts in Debian, too.
As for the dependancy hell packaging tool, you'd think they'd be able to do better that. To limit the discussion to the RPM side of things; RedCarpet isn't this bad, and neither is apt for rpm.
It has potential, it just needs to make more decisions of its own for most users (except for the people who asked not to), while SuSE should definately work out a bit the dependency problems by trimming them down to the minimal.
Exactly. But it seems like the big distros are getting really bad about the dependancies needed for packages, and that's leading to the distro bloat. The most disgusting example I can think is that RedHat used to require the ttf-ja package to be installed for X to be installed. I don't read Japanese, I don't anticipate being able to do so any time soon. :-) And you can forget about brewing your own RPMs from the provided SRPMS. It just doesn't work anymore.