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Re: [PLUG] "Distro" advocates
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On Thu, 25 May 2000, Jason Costomiris wrote:
>SuSE: Almost feels like RedHat, but ickier. YaST (their system management
> tool), annoys me endlessly. Good package management (RPM based).
Might I also add: Bleeding-edge X server support. I found the install
to be really slick (coming from Slackware 7.0); YaST is good in this
regard (and I assume their YaST2 graphical install might've been even
slicker, but they warned of a bug (in the 6.3 distro, don't know about
6.4) in YaST2 that surfaced if you tried to use it and install LILO in
the superblock of the /boot partition). But I share your views on YaST
WRT everyday stuff. It really gets annoying.
And not to start a flamefest or anything, but is there an rpm equivalent
to 'apt-cache search text_string'? I want to play with rdate on this
box (SuSE 6.3), but it's not installed. I already tried grepping the
ls-lR.gz file in the root directory of the first CD-ROM, but it didn't
turn up anything. Guess it's too small to be in its own package (or
it's not on the first CD).
Bill
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