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. -- Eugen* Leitl <a href="http://leitl.org";>leitl</a> http://leitl.org ______________________________________________________________ ICBM: 48.07100, 11.36820 http://www.ativel.com 8B29F6BE: 099D 78BA 2FD3 B014 B08A 7779 75B0 2443 8B29 F6BE
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