RE: aargh... I am being asked to change to SuSE
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hi juha..
> Anyone care to help me: I need some _strong_ points in favour of
> Debian, against SuSE. No crap, please. I need to presuade my superiors
as someone else already said, yast is a major problem with suse.. the
distribution itself is actually not bad, but it gets worse when you start
getting to know your system for real.
with debian: you know the program to confiugure, you check the manpage for the
config file names, you WILL find them in /etc, change them, re-init and you're
happy.
with suse: don't even think about touching anything in /etc - unless you really
know what you're doing, your changes will be lost anyay. call yast instead and
hope it's 3 or 4 config options of the program you'd like to configure are
supported - if not, ask the local windows-admin you might have a handy trick
like patching some sort of registry, ... ;-)
yast tries to cover all major aspects of the linux configuration, but IMHO this
must fail as even a simple print server would require it's own config program
if you don't want to touch the config files - but isn't this the major advance
of almost any linux program? ascii config files - readable, editable! I think
suse aims for windows users to switch to their distribution - as long as they
don't expect anything else then windows would offer, they're fine with suse but
it actually cuts down linux' potential to half.
maybe the suse/windows comparison might come handy for you - or you just tell
'em that debian is the unbeatable cheapest, most stable and CLEAN linux
distribution you can get.
hope this helps a little bit..
cu,
jens
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cu,
jens fendler
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