Re: [school-discuss] The end of Red Hat support

[Burkhard Woelfel <versuchsanstalt@gmx.de>]

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On Wednesday 05 November 2003 15:11, Bob Sewell wrote:
>  From a standpoint of a school... does anyone have recommendations for
> another distro to consider?  I'm considering SUSE because the pro
> version comes with 8 CDs, containing all of the software to have ever
> been tested with it.  Also YAST seems to be an ideal way to manage
> programs within.  Hey, has anyone else noticed the Novell component that
> is also within the YAST menu?  Hmmm....  inclusion is everything.
>
> Distro recommendations welcomed.  Thanks.  :-)

In my opinion SuSE is very easy to maintain. Hardware detection is very good, 
the 9.0 Pro version is 5 CDs and seems to be slightly better than the 
previous version. No reason for a major version number, but improved 
nonetheless.

YaST is a very good tool to have, it will manage just about everything. Even 
Linux newbies won't have lots of problems doing admin jobs, that's a good 
feature for the school context. 

I don't know about setting up dozens of machines with SuSE, because almost 
everything _has_ to be done with YaST. Manual config editing can be painful, 
because SuSE has it's own way to do things sometimes. I wouldn't want to 
script a mass installation process with that distro... :-)

But there has to be a tool available for stuff like that, for YaST is actually 
scriptable via --option-flags. YaST can be used remotely too, just as any X 
app.

Check it out. SuSE is proving Szulik to be completely wrong.

- - Burkhard

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