[lug] My experience with SuSE Linux

[Calvin Dodge]

And now for an opposing viewpoint (or at least a nitpick).

Yast may be a great tool, but it has its problems (aside from its (IIRC) proprietary nature).

I was helping a friend configure SuSE 7.1 recently, and Yast consistently quit with an "assert" line if we tried to configure if for the installed NIC (RTL8139). Yast kept running IF we specified a different card, but not if we selected the one which was actually installed.

I suppose we could have tried to find docs on fixing Yast, or determing just WHERE it stores its configuration info, but that would have involved an unpredictable amount of research time.

So ... we took the "easy" way out, and installed RH 7.1. Not only did it NOT have problems with the RTL8139 NIC, but it also found and automatically configured the sound card AND the second NIC (NE2000-compatible ISA). SuSE did neither.

I think I'll stick with RH, and use Webmin when I want a screen-oriented configuration program.

Calvin
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Calvin Dodge
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