[luau] SuSE Linux is great! Hopefully UnitedLinux won't hurt that!!!!

[Jaymes Schooler]

Suse is OK...Personnaly I like RedHat better especially when using it for
Web Applications and Clustering

-----Original Message-----
From: luau-admin at videl.ics.hawaii.edu
[mailto:luau-admin at videl.ics.hawaii.edu]On Behalf Of Dean Fujioka
Sent: Sunday, June 04, 2000 8:45 AM
To: luau at videl.ics.hawaii.edu
Subject: Re: [luau] SuSE Linux is great! Hopefully UnitedLinux won't
hurt that!!!!



----- Original Message -----
From: "Dustin Cross" <dusty at sandust.com>
To: <luau at videl.ics.hawaii.edu>
Sent: Monday, June 03, 2002 9:13 PM
Subject: [luau] SuSE Linux is great! Hopefully UnitedLinux won't hurt
that!!!!


> I have been using SuSE for a few years and really like it.  I moved away
to
> Mandrake for a little while, because the GUI tools were really nice and I
> was getting lazy, but they worked out the bugs in YAST2 in 7.3 and that is
> what I run on my server now.
>
Have you  seen the 8.0 they're talking about in the article?


> YAST2 is great!  It gives a nice GUI to do almost everything on the
system.
> Plus it has an almost identical command line interface to do all the same
> stuff.  I have no monitor connected to my server so I ssh in run YAST2 at
> the command line and I can do everything.  The command line use of the
> grafical config tool is what puts SuSE over the top for me.  The only
> problem is that YAST2 modifies a file with about a 1000 variables!  SuSE
> then has several scripts that use that file to modily every config file on
> the system.  SO if you manually edit some config file and then run YAST2,
> it wil over write your changes, most of the time.  It has given me a few
> warnings in 7.3 that a file has been manually edited and saves the manual
> version before writing its changes.
>
This Yet Another Settings Tool  (YAST2) was what put SUSE over the top for
their choice. Maybe I'll have to check it out..
>
> All in all I really like SuSE.
>
> Dusty
>
It sounds like I may too.

dean

>
>
>
>
> > Wow they really liked SUSE... Out of curiosity does anyone else hold
> > SUSE high on their "favorites" list.  I've heard alot about Mandrake
> > and used Rhat myself...
> >
> > dean
> >


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