"Gernot Frisch" <Me@Privacy.net> wrote in message
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> "Mike Stewart" <michaelNo.J.SpamStewart@baesystesm.com> schrieb im
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>> Hi, i was wondering if someone running suse could answer this question, i
>> am
>> currently running mandrake however there are certain things i don't like
>> about it but have stayed away from SUSE as according to their website
>> they
>> don't to software updates, does this mean that they don't release bug
>> fixes
>> for software that does not have security holes or what?
>>
>> Thanks
>>
>> Mike
>
> They implemented something in the control center for updates using YAST2.
> Personally I think the question should not be "how does SuSE...?" but "why
> SuSE?"
> just my .02$

Not SuSE. Please. A bunch of people like it for the stability and support
reasons, and if you're running a specific software package that is
well-tested I can see continuing to use it. Also, SuSE takes its
internationalization quite seriously (they're a German company). But they've
been duplicating a mistake that RedHat stopped doing years ago and keep
stapling functionality into YaST instead of using separate modules, and in
the process they've created this incredibly complex and undocumented mess of
interwoven dependencies and widgets that they seem to think are smarter and
better than that of the authors of the software itself.

Widgets on top are fine, but breaking grub-install to do it is a bad idea.
So is using symlinks inside of chroot cages to point *out* of the chroot
cage.