OpenSUSE

February 23rd, 2007 at 13:19 · Filed Under Computing, Linux 

I had been away from SUSE and the Linux community for quite some time ever since I moved my computing/working platform to Mac OS X. I stumbled upon OpenSUSE a moment ago when I visited a David’s new blog.

I had been SUSE’s fan but I started to deviate after it was bought over by Novell. Since then, I found their products lagging. Many packages in SUSE distro were outdated, the online update would break the stability and etc. I moved to Fedora and it was not better than SUSE in the online update. Again, FC5 broke the stability and usability of my system. I had even downloaded FC6 but never installed on my system. Why? Because I am quite happy with Sun’s Solaris 10.

The reasons I moved away from Linux are:

  1. the maintenance of software packages is tedious and sometimes mind-bogging, fearing the new software packages would break some dependencies or functionalities of the system or some application software.
  2. the update of kernel is troublesome, so getting some devices to work on a distro is very much dependent to the kernel installed. Updating to a new kernel may break system integrity, sometimes.
  3. The UI of the graphical desktop is never as good as Mac OS X! and it is also very difficult to keep abreast with the latest releases.
  4. Software configuration on many distros are different. For example, some distro uses /var/www as the root directory of Apache, some uses /svr/www.

I love the way Mac OS X handles things. They are standardized among many of its own releases. Mac OS X has a clean cut in system administration.

Now I am having the urge to download OpenSUSE for a try. I hope OpenSUSE will resurrect my faith for Linux.

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  • 潜龙在天 on March 4th, 2007 23:10 1

    Hi Adrian,

    I am using OpenSUSE and it is really a good distro. I recommend you to give it a try and hopefully it can restore your faith about Linux.

    About the Mac, I am seriously considering your suggestion to get myself a MacBook. But it is more expensive than Wintel notebook. I guess I have to have more and longer part time job so that I can save more money to buy one.

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