[lug] Suse 10 Dismay

[Steve Sullivan]

This morning I started to install Suse 10, but found
it's been dumbed down seriously.  Many packages have been
omitted.  It's as if anything dealing with science or math
has been omitted, and many aspects of software development
have been shortchanged.

While we can download those packages on our own, the whole
point to a Linux distribution was to package them together
saving users the trouble of building everything from scratch.

Since Suse dropped their professional version, there's no
real upgrade path without the costly Enterprise license.
Any suggestions?

Here's a sampling of packages I find in Suse 9.2 but not in 10.

blas
blasman
felix
lapack
mupad
surf

lablgtk
ocaml

cln

qca-devel
qca-sasl

f2c
gcc-g77

gperf

emacs-calc
geg
kalamaris
mathml-dtd
scilab

libgda-mysql
mysqlcc
mysql-devel
mysql-Max
phpMyAdmin
python-mysql
qt3-mysql

libnasl
nessus-core
nessus-libraries

octave

openmotif-demo
openmotif-devel

opie
pam-devel
pam_mount
pam_radius
pam_smb
razor-agents

libgda-postgres
libpgeasy
libpq++
libpqxx-devel
perl-DBD-Pg
pgaccess
pgperl
PgTcl
postgresql
postgresql-contrib
postgresql-devel
postgresql-docs
postgresql-jdbc
postgresql-pl
postgresql-server
psqlODBC
PyGreSQL
rekall-postgresql
ulogd-pgsql

prctl

swi-prolog

many python packages including:
python-ide
python-pyx

gsl
pgcalc

axssh
keychain

many ssl related packages:

ginac

nttcp
tcpd-devel
trafmon





Steve

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