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

Dustin Cross dusty at sandust.com
Tue Jun 4 10:47:00 PDT 2002


I don't do any clustering, but I run several web applications on SuSE 7.3
Sparc64 and it is great.  YAST2 it what really puts it over the top for
me.  But it is great as a desktop like Mandrake and reat as a server like
RedHat. IMO!

Dusty


> 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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