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Review of SuSE 8.1 Professional
Gentu writes "SuSE 8.1 is out and it seems to be the main competitor of Red Hat 8. OSNews has the review of its Professional version. The new SuSE 8.1 seems to be sleekier and more powerful than ever." Eugenia, as usual, isn't shy about saying what she doesn't like. There's a review on Linuxlookup.com as well.
You mean BSD?
"Have you ever thought about just turning off the TV, sitting down with your kids, and hitting them?"
I don't understand why SuSE is only now coming out with Linux 8.1, and Red Hat only just came out with Linux 8.0. Meanwhile, Slackware came out with Linux 8.0 an entire year ago. Why do all the commercial companies find it so hard to keep up? I guess in some sense the open model really is better.
Karma: Good (despite my invention of the Karma: sig)
Sleekier?
You mean, something like a united Linux distribution. Let's call it "UnitedLinux", either that or "LASER".
"Between strong and weak, between rich and poor [...], it is freedom which oppresses and the law which sets free"
So I just got done installing Suse 8.0 and while doing the online update, I decided to see what's new on slashdot. Guess what the first article I see is.
The Judean People's Front?
No! The Romans.
There's no point in questioning authority if you aren't going to listen to the answers.
SuSE just doesn't have enough CDs. I want SuSE to install every utility for every OS I can, at least in theory, emulate. I also want all optional features enabled and support for every language and file format just in case. I'm talking something like a 20GB minimum install, and SuSE just isn't there yet. Maybe next release, though.
To be honest, many of the recent slashdot posts require the reader to think exactly like the writers did in order to understand the sentences properly. Otherwise, most of them require a bit of unnecessary reading and re-reading to get their meaning right.
It's stable and intuitive without the use my way and like it that redhat tends towards or the I work great if I decide to work of mandrake.
For example, why did it take me almost 3 tries to hack my way through the previous sentence? Complete punctuation and grammar are standard technologies now, you should be able to use them. Thanks!
Stupidity is mis-underestimated.
... is that little funky green lizzard thing they have as a "mascot".
That's not all. Here's a list of what else is missing:
I guess we'll have to wait for 8.2.
DNA is the ultimate spaghetti code.
No, it's the Judean Popular Front! (Or is it *People's* Front?...)
"It's odd that RH, SuSe and Mandrake compete with each other more than their common enemy."
You mean BSD?
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No need! Haven't you heard? BSD is dying! I think they're going after CPM next...
The author of the package manager emailed me a few weeks back and told me that this is a tool only for professionals and experienced users
LOL...
Come on, grab ARCHIVES.gz from the first CD, use zgrep and rpm to install. Yast2 is the worst, I have ever seen/used. Using SuSE since their first distro (4.2).