On Tuesday 18 January 2005 11:56, plug-discuss-request@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us wrote: > From: Trent Shipley > To: "plug-discuss" > Subject: Stupid SuSE (I hate SysAdmin work) > Date: Wed, 19 Jan 2005 00:15:54 -0700 > Reply-To: plug-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us > > Some time ago (about RH 7.0) I had intolerable problems with a Red Hat > release.  I tried Debian and never really got it to work, and I tried SuSE. >   At the time (SuSE 6.x or 7.x) SuSE worked fine for me. > > I have come to regret that choice.  So much comes in RPMs, but for Red Hat > and Fedora.  On rare occasions things come as *.deb for Debian and its > derivatives.  It can be a real challenge to find SuSE RPMs, so when I > REALLY want something, I usually just get the tarball, then chase > dependencies and tarballs until the @#$% system administration project > works or I give up. > > (Why don't I change?  Maybe I should.  My home directory is mapped to a > different physical drive than the system software.  Of course, I have a > spare drive, maybe at the next installfest...?) > > Anyway, for some unfathomable reason SuSE saw fit to distribute 9.1 pro > without the Debian dselect, dpkg, apt tool chain.  I'd like to add Debian > package functionality to my system, but that leads to a real chicken-egg > problem. > > The Debian web site is a mess (at least in English), the search is turned > off (and has been pretty much every time I visit the site), and I am not > certain what tarballs (if any) I want for bootstrapping my my machine into > *.deb competence.  (I am also not certain there is a point.  However, at > one point there was some sort of standard for the location of files in > Linux and I remember reading that both Debian and SuSE were much better at > following the standard than Red Hat.) Trent, You might want to give Mepis a try. I had Suse 9.1 but ran into the same problems you did and had a HD failure on top of that. When I tried to re-install, kept getting errors, so I swiched HDs and still kept getting errors. Then I tried Mepis and haven't looked back. Now I'm trying to learn Debian, (Mepis is Deb. based) so my learning keeps expanding. HTH augie --------------------------------------------------- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change you mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss