Re: a new BSWare

["t.bedlam" <bedlam@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

We had one gent at the KLUG meeting tonight who used openBSD for his
firewall/gateway. His phrase for it was "most obscure." :)

On Wed, Jun 07, 2000 at 03:21:41AM +0000, awilliam@whitemice.org was only 
   escaped alone to tell thee:

> Are there no SuSe users on this list?  Can someone please comment on 
> the language issue and how bad it is in "current" releases.

I've heard one person mention that English language support had improved.
On the other hand, he doesn't run S.u.S.E., he's just used it recently.

> The installer has been infallible for me but the purpose of a distribution
> is to bring things together, and it seems I have to bring more and more
> together myself as time goes on.  The config tools have not kept up with
> the advertised features, LDAP for example, they said they support it, but
> try and do that without manually installing RPMS, or try to find a single
> shred of documentation on how.

Are you perhaps simply moving ahead of the curve? :)

> I've tried Mandrake but experienced some strange compatibility issues.

I had a friend who was using this. I'll ask him.

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