unitedlinux news conference

[dep]

begin  Federico Voges's  quote:

| Besides that, I really like Lizard because you can start the
| install, set all the configuration options and leave the
| installation running. When you came back, you have the system
| installed. You don't have to stay arround answering questions every
| three install steps (and wait for reboots, etc).

to their credit -- and i hate and despise yast2 -- they've done a lot 
of work on it such that it's a *little* less intrusive in screwing 
around with user settings, and they do let you walk away and let it 
install. (an exception here is when you're prompted to change cds, 
which isn't an issue with an ftp install from their site.) they have 
apparently rejiggered package management for 8.1 as well; i pretty 
much assume that this will be part of the ul distro, in that the 
whole distro will be suse.

if they are in fact seeking the enterprise (and in that they've said 
things to piss off everybody else, one supposes that they are), they 
will need to be a little less cute with the ul tools than they have 
been in the more amorphous distributions. i am absolutely certain 
that they know this.
-- 
dep

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