[lug] Suse 10 Dismay

[Andrew Diederich]

On 10/26/05, Dave Hagerty <dave at surfingpenguin.com> wrote:
>  > 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
>
>
> I admit that I kind of see their point.  Most people aren't interested in
> BLAS, LAPACK or doing FFTs.  Most people don't do code development in C,
> etc.  I don't know that I would characterize it as "dumbing down" as much as
> I would call it "going where the ducks are".

I was amazed to not see postgres and mysql on the list.  (Or, rather,
on the missing list.)  Some of it really was surprising.

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andrewdied