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SuSE 6.0 released (German only) 45

Posted by CmdrTaco from the neals-distribution-of-choice dept.
libtech writes "S.u.S.E. has just released v. 6.0 of their linux distro... Its a german only release but the english version will be out later this month."
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SuSE 6.0 released (German only)

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  • Hmm, wouldn't debian be under the "close to everything" section. Like what does suse have that it is missing?
  • Posted by BreCorr:

    really strange. I personally will wait till
    SuSE 6.1 before picking it up ...
  • No, You neednt even download the books English version. Its on the CDs. Just have to print it!
    (+500 pages :-O)

  • Hmm... (Score:1)

    by marcus ( 1916 )
    Is it penis envy, or just a lack of balls that produces comments like this?

    I haven't figured this one out. I guess you have to be a non-USA person to understand.

  • Think before you write. Its just time for their quarterly update. You can get 6.1 in spring. If they would always wait until this or that program/kernel is ready for release, they would wait infinite.
    Regards Tobias

    --
    Like it, Change it or Leave it.
  • Though I happen to like the SuSE distro, I find the version leap to a "2.2 ready" 6.0 version more than sucky. M$ methods.
  • ...who wants to learn German for the sole purpose of being able to get the latest version of S.U.S.E. right when it comes out? Ach, mein Leiderhosen!

    I think I'll learn Spanish first, though, so I can finally understand all the lyrics on my Poncho Sanchez and Tito Puente albums.

    -Eric
  • I've used SuSE 5.2, and found it very good ( the version
    of KDE included was less than stable, tho ) I often recommend
    it for new users, as I've found Red Hat to be less well
    organized ( no flames please, just my opinion. How can
    I recommend / help with a dist. I don't personally use or like? )
    I can see myself picking this up soon...
  • I see it in the list of contents, but it's not on the ftp site. What gives?! Whaaagghhhh!

    I've become a big SuSE fan over the past few months, largely due to the convenience of the Yast text-based configuration tool. Configuration utilities are easily circumnavigated for do-it-yerselfers, and I absolutely LOVE the way it sniffs out dependencies for packages during software installs and/or upgrades. Its install process is nice, but needs to give new users a bit more prompting as far as "what do I do next?". They are perhaps relying on the user to closely read the manual during install, which is fine, but strikes me as unneccessary. Look to Slackware (I think) for the ultimate 'directed' install. Slackware prompts the user at every step, but the user can always go elsewhere if they so choose.

    Red Hat has good configuration utilites for the command line as well, but I keep forgetting what they're called. It would be a nice and fairly easy devel. effort, (I think) to gather them together under one master utility.

    I was also a bit disappointed with Red Hats $30 off-the-shelf package containing only a single cd, plus one more full of demos I'll never use. (That's just me, tho'). GLINT is also fairly annoying and LONG overdue for an upgrade. Choosing a source install directory should be a quick and simple point and click procedure.

    IN PRAISE of Red Hat, however, they get ALL the credit (as far as I'm concerned) for bravely sticking to their guns by using GLIBC, fueling and encouraging development to the point where all the OTHER distros now feel it is safe to use. Someone had to be the first, and in so doing, Red Hat was (is) pivotal in hastening its development.
  • The server is in the new XF86 3.3.3 code, apparently. Apologies for not doing better research.

  • I cannot judge the author's knowledge of German (because I don't speak it myself), but his post does have a valid point (although greatly exaggerated). SuSE is definitely superior to RedHat. I tried both distros and I liked SuSE much more. I found RedHat to be quite buggy and misconfigured which gave me an impression that it was a quick hack rather then a Linux distribution. But comparing RedHat to M$ is definitely a stretch...


  • ROW (Rest Of the World) users may notice that SuSE includes strong crypto products (128 bit SSL, 3DES SSH etc.) which can be exported anywhere. I think it is really nice to provide Apache with SSL and PHP built-in.
  • Translation: SuSE is (because of YaST) rather more like M$ than RedHat. I don't care--I will keep using it, but without putting RedHat down. RedHat has pushed glibc and probably forced the KDE licence change.

    BTW, all Germans insisting on native language, please go to Schrägstrichpunkt instead, yes?
  • Ehm. Why is it searching for topicsuse.gif?
  • Though currently its using 2.0.36 if you read further into the webpage and look at the new 'features' they state that just d/l 2.2.0 when it comes out, compile and reboot... and it should work =]

    If you haven't tried SuSE before... do so now... with 5 cds and a 400 page manual you can't go wrong.
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