Everybody's favorite Ubuntu quirks

Net Llama! netllama
Wed May 3 11:40:08 PDT 2006


On Wed, 3 May 2006, Tim Wunder wrote:
> On Wednesday 03 May 2006 11:56 am, Bruce Marshall wrote:
> > On Wednesday 03 May 2006 11:26, Alma J Wetzker wrote:
> > > Whereas I have found SuSE to be ideal for my needs. ?My favorable
> > > experiences with SuSE far outweigh any I have had with Fedora.
> >
> > Same here.
> >
>
> Where I've found Suse to be wanting is third party packages. It has been my
> experience that installing third part software on Fedora is much easier,
> especially since yum has become the standard. Last I tried Suse (9.2? 9.3?) I
> had all kinds of trouble figuring out how to upgrade KDE to the latest (and
> gave up trying). Has that changed?

I've run into similar problems with SLES & SuSE-10.  I couldn't find any
decent sized collection of 3rd paryt RPMs for SuSE.  Just about everything
is for RH/FC.

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