Everybody's favorite Ubuntu quirks

[Bruce Marshall]

On Wednesday 03 May 2006 12:33, Net Llama! wrote:
> 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.

Did you ever try the packman site?

packman.links2linux.com