Quick poll

[Andrew Gould]

On Tue, Oct 7, 2008 at 1:17 AM, Roger Oberholtzer <roger at opq.se> wrote:

>
> Not to start a distro war, but I just installed the latest Fedora. I
> really disliked their graphical install. Too much was already decided.
> It is ok if the way to make changes from these defaults is made obvious.
> I do not feel this was the case with their graphical install. OTOH, I
> think openSUSE are striking the right balance. Like giving you the
> option of letting the installer figure out everything, or having the
> installer take you through things. You have the level of control you
> want. I also thought the FC package selection was mysterious. Seemed to
> me that I could only install very coarse grained sets of packages. I
> must have missed the obvious place where one could be more specific.
> Does the FC installer have a package search option to let you find
> specific packages during install. The whole point of a graphical
> event-driven interface is that the paradigm makes it easier to make the
> most relevant options accessible to the user without having to resort to
> searching menus. Clicking on obscure icons to find basic things, like
> the level of control you can have over the install - which is perhaps
> one of the most relevant install options, obviates the whole reason for
> a gui application. In any event, it installed over 3000 packages and
> took a very long time.
>
> I remain an openSUSE fan. I think Fedora really dumbed down their
> installer. Makes me suspicious of the rest of the system control
> utilities. I will explore those next. They are, after all, more
> important than the once-used install system.
>
> --
> Roger Oberholtzer
>
> OPQ Systems / Ramböll RST
>
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>

One of the great revelations I had after I finally dropped Caldera, was that
I would be much happier if I approached the OS selection issue by first
asking myself, "Who's market am I in?"  We all face this issue when we like
a piece of hardware that doesn't support Linux or *BSD.  SUSE/OpenSUSE has
always been the "kitchen sink" distro.  RedHat has its eyes on business.
You can compare SLED with RedHat/Fedora; but OpenSUSE serves a different
market.

Andrew
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