The devil you know

[Nathan England]

I didn't mean to imply the RPM system is bad. However, the packages that
SUSE has built, regardless of what delivery system they use, are crap!

When I installed 11.1 a while back and out of the box it would not update.
Two weeks later I found some forum comment about having to manually edit
some file to get openSUSE to update with zypper... Why then was an updated
ISO never put out? Maybe it was 11.2 or .3, I don't remember.

Then I installed 11.4 and had similar problems. I added some additional
repositories and after hours of playing, never could get VirtualBox
installed. I gave up and went back to Fedora. A Guh-Nome based distro!!! ha
ha


>
> The packaging's RPM-based, but whatever.  I just found that updates in SuSE
> tended to break stuff, packages for some programs were missing, and it was
> often difficult or impossible to compile things from source without
> grabbing
> more recent libs and compiling *them* from source.
>
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Nathan England
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valid warrant signed by a judge and properly submitted. If we fail to
exercise our rights, we lose them.
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