[lug] Suse 10 Dismay

[Nate Duehr]

Steve Sullivan <Steve Sullivan 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
>has been omitted, and many aspects of software development
>have been shortchanged.
>  
>
Heh... someone could insert a joke about it moving from Germany to the 
U.S. here, and the state of our public education system, but... that'd 
be too easy.

>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.
>  
>
Gentoo?  :-)

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

Nate