What's after OpenLinux?

[Collins Richey]

On Fri, 7 Mar 2003 22:57:43 -0800
Bill Campbell <bill at celestial.com> wrote:

> On Fri, Mar 07, 2003 at 05:49:52PM -0500, Jerry McBride wrote:
> 
> >Well, it looks like I'll be spending some effort to swap out some OpenLinux
> >boxes pretty soon. Principles you know...
> 
> >Can someone tell me, which of the various distributions are closest to
> >OpenLinux in as far as directory locations and system V startup scripts?
> 
> We've moved to SuSE 8.1, and I've been quite happy with it overall.
> They've moved away from the mongo rc.config file (and we're building all of
> our stuff using openpkg so don't run afoul of any of their packages).
> 
> SuSE has a very nice method of dealing with the SYSV startup where
> dependencies can be specified in the master startup in /etc/init.d, then
> the ``inssrv'' program will figure out what has to start in order to make
> sure things are done in the proper order.
> 

They've finally caught up with gentoo <grin>

> I haven't had any problems with yast2, and it has an ncurses mode that
> works quite well from non GUI sessions.
> 

--
Collins