Wayne Stallwood wrote:
On Thu, 2007-03-01 at 14:48 +0000, Greg Thomas wrote:
Yesterday, I received a presentation on SLED - http://www.novell.com/products/desktop/
Is it me or does the presentation on the "View Demo" have the most completely bizarre pronunciation of "SUSE" ever ?
Back in the old days when it was still German, I spoke to the MD at an exhibition. He said it should be pronounced Soo-Zuh. Haven't watched the demo...
I was up until a few years ago a big advocate of Suse, I used to religiously purchase every other release as boxed copy.
Ditto. I'd still take it over RH any day.
Certainly everything is pretty well polished and there is little doubt that YaST simplifies basic Admin for those not so familiar with Linux.
The only things that really stop me from still running it again are (in no specific order)
RPM. Once you have lived with apt you never want to go back to anything RPM based no matter how many fancy tools they wrap around it.
I second, third and fourth that. If one lets the system get even a smidge behind the curve, it can be an absolute nightmare to sort it out. If one ever installs something for which there is no package, and that's not an infrequent event when one is running servers commercially, then library dependencies enter a new level of pain. No, it's Gentoo for me (and even that has its "challenges"!).
YaST. I like YaST and it really helps those not so familiar with Linux get the simple things working (file and printer sharing, firewall, remote access etc) but up until I stopped running Suse at home it really _hated_ any manual twiddling of configuration files.
Novell. I still am really unsure about Novell. If only because I will never forgive them for pulling the plug on what was looking to be the most viable alternative to Microsoft Small Business Server when they bought Suse.
Ditto on both of those.
Cheers, Laurie.