'Sneak Preview' of SUSE 9.1

Roblimo writes "SUSE 9.1 won't be out until May, but Joe Barr got access to a 'secret' beta download and tried it out. He liked some of what he saw, and found things he didn't like, too, but is willing to overlook some of the negatives because, he points out, 'This is a beta. Bugs are expected. Work will be done before it goes gold.' The review's at Linux.com." Linux.com and Slashdot are both part of OSDN.

Comments

Re:SuSE?

[superpulpsicle]

I "was" a redhat fan. But I find it hard to stick to them after the free release became fecesdora.

And I am not the only one...

Re:"Dumbing" Down?

[Trolling4Columbine]

But remember, from the perspective of your average pretentious Linux zealot, anything that makes Linux easier to use is an attack on the open source religion.

Re:SuSE?

[justsomebody]

It's by far the slowest distro I've ever seen in 6 years of Linux use

Completely different point of view, far by fastest. And didn't fix anything.

Additionally, each release is only supported for around 7-9 months

What stops you then??? Is kernel not gonna be compatible or what?? I guess you know a little more than the rest of us.

btw. upgrade to newer version works, even rawhide repository works. But hell, I always build everything extra from sources, except workstation setups.

Serious setting as you say in my point of view

1. Single update repository for all servers that is completely controlled by you. (never trust anybody or anything, check everything)
2. Avoid using default services and try to hide the ones that you run with fake names (it is considered as good avoiding of possible known bugs)
3. Always compile from sources to ensure your serious setting to be run as serious as possible (like in samba av support, proxy av support, in my case pure-ftpd kernel-chroot support....)
4. Almost never use the default servers. Mostly they are far from the best (you know,... some have little licensing problems, in my case qmail, that little trouble with source distribution)
5. You'll have to update some intrusion detectors and some other various usefull tools someday (if you have update repository set up in a safe manner then this could be included in basic update, without troubling you)
6. Always provide your kernels because you are the one who knows your basic hardware setup best

To be honest, from any dostro I set up as server, there is very little default left at the end. so in the end I really shouldn't care which one I use, just that it hasn't got some serious bugs when starting.

And one more thing, my little setting has one deployment center for over 50-60 servers (deployed along the country - not all Fedora mostly RH 8 and 9 with even 2x7.2, yep ;) one with 2.6kernel although I know it is not supported) with single testing and compiling and auto updating, one for 150 workstations just the same

I hope that my setting isn't too childish for you


Let me guess, Gentoo, Slack or BSD??? In that order.