Do I have the wrong Distro?

Penguin of Wonder · 04-25-2006, 12:01 PM

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Originally Posted by drkstr

To answer your original question, try using slackware if you are looking for a change. I have never had a problem compiling. Slackware wants you to compile software from the source and then turn it into a slackware package yourself (so it can be easily removed). It has an awsome tool to create your own packages from the source that only requires 2 steps. I like having this greater control over what is going on in my linux system. You might want to give it a try when your tired of SUSE trying to do everything for you (and a lot of the times incorrectly).

regards,
...drkstr

Gentoo works very similar if you enjoy the idea its been compiled just for your computer!

oskar · 06-04-2006, 01:07 PM

I think I finally found it. I'm very happy with ubuntu now. I do like to know what my system does, but I don't want to have to tell it what to do.

Some time after I posted this, a "provides-" searching for gtk-devel in suse turned up results. Something was apparently broken.

Anyhow. With Ubuntu I had absolutely no problems getting things to work. And less application crashes.

I still like many things about suse, but for now I'm very pleased with what I've got.

aldimeneira · 06-04-2006, 06:12 PM

I think that Yast and direct downloads are the best way of using FOSS if you're not going to change the code. If there's any enhancements, tweaks, changes, etc that you think are useful for some free code then go ahead. But for only using free software it's unnecesary to recompile.

oskar · 06-06-2006, 04:43 PM

Unless you need the current version, or the packages that come with the distribution are broke or don't work correctly...
With suse 10.0 timidity didn't work, ardour was not available, so I had to compile... I don't remember what else, but it was annoying. It all works with 10.1 now though. I got ardour from rpmsearch, they had compiled packages.

It was just a nice experience on ubuntu to be able to install all necessary compiling tools with one line, and apt installed everything without complaining.

Installing and setting up 10.1 was very easy too. I still dual -boot with suse. Suse was the first distro I used in 1998, so I will definitely keep an eye on them.
Anyway, these are good times for linux.