Linked by Thom Holwerda on Thu 6th Jul 2006 10:41 UTC
Last week, I wrote about my first impressions of SUSE Enterprise Linux Desktop 10, after only a day of usage. I was quite impressed by the whole package, claiming that "I can confidently say that this release candidate outshines Windows Vista's beta" and "I'd even go as far as to say that even Apple should be worried". I still stand by those two statements, but after a week of daily usage, some reflection on just how much it outshines Vista or how worried Apple should be are justified.
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RE[2]: SLED 10 and SUSE 10.1 package management
by Knuckles on Thu 6th Jul 2006 19:59
in reply to "RE: SLED 10 and SUSE 10.1 package management"
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Actually when I meant red carpet, I meant the graphical gui, not the daemon in itself, and while they reused stuff from the red carpet deamon, they added these new gui's that are really sub-par (for now at least).
But yeah, yast was kinda good too, not very good for managing lots of external sources, but when you needed it, it always worked.
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P.s.: Interestingly, they had a very good gui package manager, that they bought from Ximian, Red Carpet, that was very good and I used it on suse 9.3
They largely integrated Red Carpet into ZMD. Red Carpet was never a great bit of software no matter what distro you used it on, and displayed many of the same problems that ZMD does now, particularly when updating already installed packages and resolving dependencies. Yet another piece of unfinished and unstabilised junk that was never a great success at all, especially considering that YaST actually worked and there are other systems around like apt and Smart.
YaST was always the package manager in Suse Linux, and although not perfect over the years, it seemed to have got much better from Suse Linux 9.0 onwards.
As I suspected, these seemingly small practical problems are going to completely scupper the very few customers of SLED as they come to use it more.