technologynewsdaily.com — SUSE? Linux Enterprise Desktop 10 from Novell? was named ?Best of Show? at the LinuxWorld Conference & Expo in San Francisco this week. In addition, SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop was named ?Best Desktop Solution,? and Novell AppArmor earned ?Best Security Solution? honors.
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screenienerdAug 18, 2006
yup, it's pretty: <a class="user" href="http://shots.osdir.com/slideshows/slideshow.php?release=700&slide=5">http://shots.osdir.com/slideshows/slideshow.php?release=700&slide=5</a>
feanorAug 18, 2006
Raids Per Minute (I think it has to do with WoW)/sarcasm
curriosAug 18, 2006
Since Novell bought Suse it got a really good Distro. So Congratulation Novell and Suse!
dcherryholmesAug 18, 2006
I think brushing aside problems with package management, as the people defending Suse here seem prone to do, is wrong. I deployed Suse 9.1 Pro in our clinic a few years ago, and I encountered the same "dependency hell" I experienced with Redhat before that (the last one I seriously deployed was 7.3, after which I jumped ship). I've now just about got everything converted over to Ubuntu. The reason why I made the switch was mainly because I felt that Suse had done too much customization of things like http.conf, sendmail.mc, etc..... not because of the RPM thing. I learned the trade on Solaris and HP/UX boxes, and I wanted a linux distro that was close to "vanilla", while at the same time having some things pre-configured and with the option to GUI-ize. So yes, I know that Solaris also put their twist on things (every OS does), and I know about things like Slackware, Gentoo (used that for a year or so), LFS, etc. It's a very personal sweet spot that's going to be different for each person. But for me, Suse felt like somebody had unleashed Clippy on the POSIX system... "can I help you with that? Here, do it this way, it will be easier", etc etc. I've had none of the dependency problems with (multiple) Debian-based systems that I had with (multiple) RPM based systems, and I just went with Ubuntu instead of vanilla Debian because more things are pre-configured and (recently) it's a one-command LAMP stack setup. Sorry for the ramble and, as always, YMMV.
dcherryholmesAug 18, 2006
I wasn't comparing Suse and Ubuntu. I was explaining why I was dissatisfied enough with Suse that, all on my own, I decided to take on the headache of migrating our whole clinic away from it. That migration happened to be Ubuntu, but it could have been to about a dozen other things.
vh1_Aug 18, 2006
I really wanted to get into suse so I downloaded opensuse 10.1 a few days ago. I also went with the gnome desktop because I already have kubuntu installedI couldn't get my wireless usb adapter working. it worked with no configuration in kubuntu. dmesg shows it was picked up properly. and I even tried adding it manually to the network manager but still couldn't get suse to actually use it. also, it would tell me to update, but when I tried, after minutes of loading package information, it would tell me that there is dependency issues. off of a new install?
justathoughtAug 18, 2006
If you install it again, even from the same media you used before, you will be able to connect to their update servers and download the fixes to the package manager. I tried it and it worked well. I like SUSE, but I don't like the fact that they are starting to give more attention to Gnome than to KDE. I have been looking around at other desktops and I think I am going to settle on either Mepis or PCLinuxOS. No problems, no hassles, and much better package managers (Synaptic).