On Sat, Nov 09, 2002 at 07:11:18PM -0600, ZephyrQ wrote: > --ability to recover when occasional problems happen (without having to > reinstall to recover my X desktop)
Never had to do this except one time in 1997 from a backup after a freshman classmate at in high school my sophomore year when he found out about a bind4 exploit a few hours before I had a chance to log in and get the new version (geek high school, compromising friend's boxen seemed to be a passtime for many thier freshman year). > --gnome friendly (SuSE is increasingly marginalizing gnome in favor of > KDE) The menu system seems to be better supported in gnome than KDE, I assume this is because it's basically the menu program running it but considering I don't like DEs in general, I haven't had one installed in a very long time. > --decent community to help out with problems (which is why many > suggested you guys, and why I subscribed to the list...) Generally speaking, if you ask a good question and don't say things like "Please email me privately, I don't subscribe to the list," then you will get answers if people know anything about it. > --ability to install software easily (I don't mind the > configure/make/make install dance except that SuSE sometimes puts stuff > in weird places--difficult for me to find) You'll find apt and dpkg to be a refreshing change for the better. > --more control over boot process and graphical logins (I hate it) Not difficult to manage /etc/rc?.d/ > --and the ability to *easily* control many of my tweaks. When SuSE > went exclusively to yast2, I lost the ability to change many things > (like the graphical login...) and changes I *did* make get changed back > after the next re-boot. If you can use a text editor, you can make really fine changes, or for something more complex and general, dpkg-reconfigure is pretty good. > --documentation for me to read to help me figure stuff out. Located in /usr/doc and /usr/share/doc -- .''`. Baloo Ursidae <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> : :' : proud Debian admin and user `. `'` `- Debian - when you have better things to do than to fix a system
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