Redhat 7.3 or Suse 8.0

Jerry Feldman gaf at blu.org
Sun May 12 08:32:35 EDT 2002


I have not seen any german text in the man pages. Some of their older 
versions (5.x and 6.x) had some.
They still use YaST (actually YaST2) which is now modular. But, you can 
still configure stuff by hand. There was never any restriction from that. 
They are now reasonably compliant with LSB. Most of the config stuff you 
use on Red Hat can be used on SuSE 8.0 with no problems.
David Kramer wrote:
> On Sat, 11 May 2002, Jerry Feldman wrote:
> 
> > My preference is SuSE 8.0. 
> How do you feel about SuSE for small but complex servers like mine at 
> home vs Red Hat?
> 
> As I've mentioned before, I've tried several older versions of SuSE, and 
> was frustrated by things like a significant portion of the text in man 
> pages and documentation and install screens were in German.  Is that still 
> an issue?
> 
> Also, I despise YAST, and any configuration tools that are
> database-driven, like Windows' registry.  Can one configure the system
> manually without screwing up things?
> 
> > Dennis Maher gave the BLU a case of beer for last year's BLU BarBQue.
> 
> I _knew_ I liked him!
> 
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