Novell will be launching a community-based Linux distribution, OpenSuSE, at next week's LinuxWorld in San Francisco, according to sources close to the company. Following in the footsteps of Red Hat Inc. with its successful Fedora Project Linux distribution, Novell Inc. will be opening up its Linux development efforts with OpenSuSE, sources said.
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Member since:2005-07-06
Member since:2005-07-06
Ubuntu is the best Linux I have tried. It installed and it worked the first go and is relatively up to date. It is the foam on top of a sea of crud.
Maybe if there was a real free version of SuSE I would have used SuSE 9.3. I last used SuSE 9.0 on a laptop (and it worked well other than networking) but SuSE does not have an upgrade policy for going from 9.0 to 9.3. The company and its new owner were never all too well run.
So for this latest project I used Ubuntu.
My use of Ubuntu was to port some command line utilities from Windows C++ to Linux C++ and even with Ubuntu getting all the compiler stuff installed on the machine took hours longer than actually porting the software.
"Linux for Human Beings (Who Like To Waste Time)".
Yeah, it was sad. But at least the system worked. I had tried Fedora Core before Ubuntu and damn that is a pile of shit. Talk about bloatware. Talk about supergalactic slow as crap. Fedora Core is a train wreck. No wonder VMWare doesn't want to support it.
There are some few legitimate uses of Linux as a free server OS, but this use is tiny compared to the overall OS market. This segment is the "screw around with the machine to get it working... wasting a lot of time... because we know we are not going to change *anything* for a while". This is a tiny slice of the real world.
From my experience with Linux for the past several years, I have come to the conclusion that for anything except demos and very small short term projects, Linux is dead on arrival. No amount of patches and bandaids can make up for a crappy design. This is what Microsoft has learned (is learning). Unfortunately, it will take Linux 20 years probably to learn that design is what matters most in software. Oh well.
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2005-07-06
...What has made Ubuntu so fashionable: a lot of newbies have simply fallen in love with apt and Debian: Ubuntu gave them an easy chance to try.
Previous to Ubuntu the majority were just too dumb or lazy to install Debian plus a working X plus Gnome or KDE: Ubuntu made that easy.
You're on to something here.
However, it may not be people were "too dumb" but more likely people "don't want to waste countless hours fucking with Linux bullshit".
Installing software on Linux has to be the worst thing "invented" for computers in the last 20 years. It is hard to believe that some not so small number of developers thinks that Linux is ready for mass consumption.
Even Ubuntu beyond the install is unusable by anyone less than a Linux guru. One run of the package manager proved this. No one would ever know what all that stuff is or if it is important or not. Many dependencies simply do not work. And there is no way to uninstall stuff nicely in Linux without breaking everything. Yep, Linux has to be the most busted design for install/uninstall in the past 20 years.
For real usability over the life of a machine there is no Linux that rates more than 0/10. The capability is just not there yet. Linux for the most part is a bad design. If it were not open source, it would be in the same boat as all the other small audience loser operating systems -- BeOS, Amiga, Morph, etc.