Distirbuitions

John Voigt jvoigt
Mon May 17 11:42:24 PDT 2004


On 12/31/2002 10:56 AM, Matthew Carpenter wrote:

<snippage>

 > I'm not proposing marriage yet, but in the wake of the bitter divorce
 >  that SCO forced upon me by discontinuing OpenLinux, it looks hop!
 > eful. [sic]

Yup. I hadn't intended to switch either, but the kinda forced me to.

 > Most importantly, SuSE doesn't break KDE.  I'm a bit overwhelmed by
 > the amount of software that it comes with,

Another good point. I need to get a DVD reader one of these days, so I 
don't need to keep swapping CDs. The all-on-one DVD is a nice bonus.

 > and a little disappointed that I had to install a couple packages
 > that I'm used to in a standard install (like KDE Graphics Extras
 > package for ksnapshot) IFUP and IFDOWN are included in this release,
 > but I can't find LOCATE (which I live by).

It's part of findutils-4.1-11. You might need to run updatedb as well - 
I don't recall.

HTH,

John V.
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