[brlug-general] SuSE......wow who'da thunk it

[Andrew Baudouin]

How is that not IT?

On 10/19/07, mat branyon <mat.branyon at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> mobile software development.  I am working for bluedotsolutions out in
> Denver Colorado building workorder and asset management apps for mobile
> devices ( from which I have learned that 'JDE SUCKS!!')
>
> On 10/19/07, Dustin Puryear <dustin at puryear-it.com> wrote:
> >
> > YaST is still slow.
> >
> > What are you doing now if not IT?
> >
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> >
> > mat branyon wrote:
> > > SuSe is a great distro, but I have always had just one problem with
> > > it... it runs so very slow on every machine I have ever installed it
> > on,
> > > especially YaST.  I have played around with kernel configurations and
> > > everything, and it's just never been quick enough.  Does it still take
> > a
> > > while for YaST to respond, or was that just me?
> > >
> > > Every few years though, I pick it up and give it another try.  Right
> > now
> > > I am in the middle of a dist-upgrade on my laptop, which will probably
> > > break things more.  Hibernate already stopped working in Ubuntu on
> > that
> > > machine (out of nowhere really... no new packages installed or
> > anything;
> > > I think the machine is dying on me... stupid Dell).
> > >
> > > I should also disclose that give enough time, I will break all
> > > installations, of every operating system, ever, and unintentionally
> > > even, which is why I stay away from IT work now.
> > >
> > > --mat
> > >
> > > On 10/19/07, *Andrew Baudouin* <andrewmb at gmail.com
> > > <mailto:andrewmb at gmail.com>> wrote:
> > >
> > >     I've broken many a system with dist-upgrade (and emerge -U world),
> > >     especially if non-standard packages are installed,  I'm talking
> > >     kernel panic broken.  This sounds like the Holy Grail of
> > >     distribution upgrades.
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >     On 10/18/07, *willhill* <williamhill2 at cox.net
> > >     <mailto: williamhill2 at cox.net>> wrote:
> > >
> > >         Cool.  It sounds almost as easy as apt-get, and is certainly
> > faster.
> > >
> > >         On Thursday 18 October 2007 4:46 pm, Ronnie Gilkey wrote:
> > >         > [Suse was]  smart enough to resolve all the package
> > >         > dependencies, add a few more, remove some stale /
> > non-existent
> > >         packages
> > >         > in the new version.  An hour and a half later, I rebooted to
> > >         find an
> > >         > OpenSuSE 10.2 system with the latest software, and all my
> > user /
> > >         > configuration data in place.  No skips, bumps, nothing, it
> > just
> > >         worked
> > >         > -- and properly at that.  I had to re-compile one
> > >         non-distributed Apache
> > >         > module and I was running again.
> > >         > ...
> > >
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