Suse 9.2 NOT a disaster

Suse 9.2 NOT a disaster

Posted Nov 6, 2004 5:09 UTC (Sat) by einstein (subscriber, #2052)
In reply to: What else would Novell do? by einstein
Parent article: Top Linux exec departs from Novell (News.com)

Although, looking at the disaster that is suse pro 9.2

It turns out that 9.2 is not a disaster at all, but just looked that way. Some changes were made that caused me to jump to conclusions. Here's the deal, I just got my 9.2 boxed set, which I ordered online from suse.com a few days ago. While installing from the 5 CDs, I noticed a lot of missing packages, things like, for instance, amavisd-new, a key component of the suse spam/virus blocking in earlier versions of suse; also missing were the development tools and libs which I needed, in order to build amavisd-new from suse 9.1 source rpms. It just wasn't on any of the 5 CDs, Nor was openvpn, a very nice alternative ssl-based VPN package that I've used for several years with business customers. The list goes on, and I was majorly bummed.

As it turns out, they have added so much new stuff that it just doesn't all fit on 5 CDs anymore, but it's all on the DVD...OK amavisd-new, and all prerequsite libs are now installed, openvpn is there too, all the good stuff I was originally expecting, and more.

The box is snappier than it was with 9.1, and overall I give it 2 big thumbs up. apologies for the false alarm, I should have known suse couldn't have suddenly become a crappy distro.

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