[wlug_org] Fedora Core 1 Out of Box experience - SuSE 9 Replacement?

[Jamie Baddeley]

you should probably post [an abbreviated version] of your questions to
the mainlist too.

Any feedback is good for you to consider.

Being a debian man, I don't *really* care. But...

If LUG will continue to have people that can help these potential new
Suse users, then it should be OK. But if we are creating a scenario of
newbies with no Suse help further on down the track, then we may need to
rethink it.

jamie

On Tue, 2004-04-20 at 11:24, Carl Klitscher wrote:
> Hi All,
> I had assumed that the plan was to deliver a working useful system to the
> punters that they could maintain themselves with the minimum of fuss. To me
> this means, as an example, that things like java, flash and realplayer need
> to work out of the box. I know that there are Linux versions available for
> download but some, java in particular, can be less than forgiving during
> install.
> 
> In FC1's case none of the above work out of the box. This can be rectified
> on the day so we do deliver to expectation however this means a separate CD
> with all of the extras required that FC1 doesn't ship. The FC1 package
> maintainer also leaves something to be desired in that not all packages
> shipped are selectable. To get the rest you need to drop into command line
> and know what you are looking for.
> 
> As an alternative we could use SuSE 9. The install process by default loads
> a number of the web 'enhancers' (and I use the term loosely) and the
> maintenance and upgrade manager is a lot more granular and newbie friendly.
> 
> So, the questions are:
> 1) Do we continue with FC1 and add the required packages manually?
> 2) Do we switch to SuSE 9?
> 3) Do we provide both and let the punter decide?
> 
> Personally I would appreciate the opportunity to do SuSE as I feel it is
> more appropriate for the situation. I sympathise with what the Fedora
> people are trying to achieve however even though it uses RH as a base there
> are enough changes in there for it to have moved back into the experimental
> stage.
> 
> Carl
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