On Mon, May 08, 2006 at 01:19:23PM -0400, Mark Haney wrote:
Good luck with that. I have a SUSE box that has virtually nothing
installed by default. You think Fedora's installation is sparse? I was
I can't confirm that data point. SuSE installs are usually eclectic.
amazed at the total lack of packages installed in SUSE. Really,
it's a
total joke to work on that server. It has KDE /and/ GNOME installed (on
You're talking about a server, I notice.
a /server/ no less) and yet I had to install the sysstat packages
along
with ntpd and about 3 or 4 others just to make the server really
manageable. The SUSE install is just silly. The Fedora installer is at
least more /sane/ than most other installers I've seen or used.
I disagree. I'm still not done with pulling the packages in manually.
People, this sucks.
But it seems rather childish to switch distros just for that. Kind
of
like taking your ball and going home, eh?
I don't like the sentiment behind above sentence. Yes, I try and run
whatever the fuck I damn please. It broadens the horizont. It allows
me to get work done quicker. Been SuSE, done that, and "install everything"
is a sufficient reason to switch distros.
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