<div dir="ltr">On Tue, Oct 7, 2008 at 1:17 AM, Roger Oberholtzer <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:roger@opq.se">roger@opq.se</a>></span> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
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Not to start a distro war, but I just installed the latest Fedora. I<br>
really disliked their graphical install. Too much was already decided.<br>
It is ok if the way to make changes from these defaults is made obvious.<br>
I do not feel this was the case with their graphical install. OTOH, I<br>
think openSUSE are striking the right balance. Like giving you the<br>
option of letting the installer figure out everything, or having the<br>
installer take you through things. You have the level of control you<br>
want. I also thought the FC package selection was mysterious. Seemed to<br>
me that I could only install very coarse grained sets of packages. I<br>
must have missed the obvious place where one could be more specific.<br>
Does the FC installer have a package search option to let you find<br>
specific packages during install. The whole point of a graphical<br>
event-driven interface is that the paradigm makes it easier to make the<br>
most relevant options accessible to the user without having to resort to<br>
searching menus. Clicking on obscure icons to find basic things, like<br>
the level of control you can have over the install - which is perhaps<br>
one of the most relevant install options, obviates the whole reason for<br>
a gui application. In any event, it installed over 3000 packages and<br>
took a very long time.<br>
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I remain an openSUSE fan. I think Fedora really dumbed down their<br>
installer. Makes me suspicious of the rest of the system control<br>
utilities. I will explore those next. They are, after all, more<br>
important than the once-used install system.<br>
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Roger Oberholtzer<br>
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OPQ Systems / Ramböll RST<br>
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Ramböll Sverige AB<br>
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</blockquote><div><br>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.<br>
<br>Andrew<br></div></div></div>