[ale] SUSE package manager and install empathy

[James Sumners]

SuSE 5.1 or 5.2 was the first distro I used. Then Debian Hamm (which
relied on the horrible deselect), followed by Red Hat 6.0/6.1. Later,
I gave OpenSUSE 10.0/10.1 and some Fedora versions. Of the RPM
distros, I like OpenSUSE the best. However, I have found that the apt
imitations to be painfully slow updating their database and installing
packages. Also, unless it has been fixed, the net installer for
OpenSUSE is just about useless.

If I remember correctly, you had to know the full path to the boot
image on the remote server so that you could type it yourself. And
then it would be a gamble if it actually worked without trying it
several times.

YaST has always been the best feature of SUSE.

On Monday, February 14, 2011, Chuck Payne <terrorpup at gmail.com> wrote:
> SUSE come a long way guys. It rock solid and very easy. Zypper is as
> equal to Apt-get. Now, the different with SLE and openSUSE, there are
> ton of repos, the dependency hell, I haven't had that issue. RPM's are
> systems have come a long way. I don't know of anything equal to Space
> Walk or Auto-Yast for Debain. Remember, if it's Enterprise the two
> that companies use are Red Hat ( CentOS ) and SUSE Linux Enterprise
>
> RPM are very easy too, as easy as .deb and apt-get. You want a power
> package manager you need to try Zypper.
>
> Chuck

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