Re: gEDA-user: Next spin of CD installer available

[Daniel J Wisehart <dw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

That is an interesting report.  A friend who runs SuSE 9.1 on his machine at 
work has no end of problems.  I have personally never had any problems with 
it.  I thought it was a difference in the hardware we are running.  It is 
good to hear that SuSE 9.[23] are working well.  

I had considered moving to CentOS when I do my next upgrade because it is a 
supported Linux distro at the place that has our managed servers.

Regards,
Daniel


On Friday 26 August 2005 14:47, Marvin Dickens wrote:
> On Friday 26 August 2005 10:50 am, Stuart Brorson wrote:
> > One other note:  SuSE 9.[012] personal edition didn't put a lot of .h
> > files in the distribution.  THis may cause problems later in the
> > build.  Be forewarned.  The fix is to install, for example, the
> > XFree86-devel package, as well as some other *-devel packages.
>
> We have use SuSE in our shop(And, I use it at home...) and have for years.
> With that said, 9.1 professional and the downloadable version were huge
> disapointments. In fact, we bitched  (With real complaints about real
> problems) so much to SuSE/Novell, that when 9.2 was released they sent up
> free copies of 9.2
>
> We had problems from the day we installed 9.1 until 9.2 was available to
> us. Almost everything that we used that was not part of the distribution
> would not compile. Programs that should have compiled even though they were
> not part of the distro would not... We ended up de-installing a lot of the
> programming libraries and reinstalling them from original source. This
> solved most of the problems, but every time we added a new app/program to
> the list of things we used, we would hold our breath - Hoping it would
> compile. Sometimes it would, sometimes it wouldn't.
>
> With that said, SuSE 9.2 and 9.3 play well with gEDA - Or at least as well
> as Fedora and Debian. My advice is to dump SuSE 9.1. It's more trouble than
> it's worth and does not reflect the quality that the SuSE/Novell
> distribution is known for.
>
> Regards
>
> Marvin