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

[CM Banker]

You deal with clients - you don't take their guff tho....

On 10/19/07, mat branyon <mat.branyon at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I code now... I don't deal with clients.
>
> On 10/19/07, Andrew Baudouin <andrewmb at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > 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?
> > > >
> > > > --
> > > > Puryear Information Technology, LLC
> > > > Baton Rouge, LA * 225-706-8414
> > > > http://www.puryear-it.com
> > > >
> > > > Author, "Best Practices for Managing Linux and UNIX Servers"
> > > >   http://www.puryear-it.com/pubs/linux-unix-best-practices
> > > >
> > > > Identity Management, LDAP, and Linux Integration
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > 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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