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

[CM Banker]

And I forgot to mention apple....   Their celebrity miracle worker is no
less then Jean-Claude Van Damme. <http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000241/>    As
with all apple technology pushes,  this is mostly a joint marketing effort
pushing technology originated in 1984. (hint search for 1984 in JCVD link)

On 10/19/07, CM Banker <csf006+brlug at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Ain't Open source grand...
>
>
> I've never tried SuSe but I understand that their  upgrade process
> improved markedly when they hired on David Hassllehoff<http://www.hasselhoff.com/>to hold his hands on the machine that burns the CDs.   He apparently absorbs
> all of the hassle from the process.  Suse <http://www.vamp.org/Siouxsie/>are new wave trend setters.
>
> In response to this new technique, Microsoft fired up their OS effort on WindowsXPNextGen
> <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Bob>  and started  the typical pro-microsoft
> marketing  campaign <http://www.esquilax.com/baywatch/>.
>
> I understand Mark Shuttleworth is consulting with both Steven Seagal
> <http://www.flickr.com/photos/skyflash/76054061/>and Chuck Norris<http://www.chucknorrisfacts.com/>to assist in "eliminating" all trouble with ubuntu upgrades.
>
> Seriously, My children finished upgrading their boxen to Ubuntu 7.10 - no
> CD; just a simple command.  As it was network based, it only took a couple
> of  hours per box.
>
>
>
>
> Happy Friday...
>
> -Craig
>
>
> On 10/18/07, willhill <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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