nix distro & exchange

[gore]

Yikes didn't realise calling it a "Sissy OS" would get such a great reaction

anyhow i guess it does keep the usual fanboy's and sack riders busy while they point n click through an installer that holds there hand the whole way threw, i mean it was only a matter of time before a "sissi-fied" *nix distro hit the market for those that couldn't get slackware etc installed cause you couldn't just do your makeup, talk on your phone while randomly clicking that mouse all over the screen n presto you got yourself a bitchin *nix install, so now you gotta post bout it all over the interwebz cause your all l337 now cause you got that Linux..
Reminds me of the Apple fanboys' how they always meantion "Hey i posting on my iPhone / iPad"

**** i shouldn't post here when i'm

Oh you're such a little **** sometimes!

OpenSUSE has the best installer. Period. And Period is the right word if you're posting from a Pad isn't it?

LOL I thought Apple made some real pussy products but now it's almost not funny.....Actually yes it is! AAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH!

Sorry,. OK, so, the installer of any given distro these days, seriously? THAT is why something is good? Think about this for a second, OpenSUSE, SUSE, and Mandriva and RedHat and Debian, ALL use a GUI installer. All of them. And for SUSE it's like....

I've installed an OS before without the monitor. I've done that with Slackware and SUSE I think twice.... I didn't have the monitor on and since I knew exactly what to press and how many times, I just did it. THAT is easy.

The SUSE installer has always been good though. I just love it. They struck gold with Yast and Yast2.

Oh and since someone has now recommended SUSE, remember this:

Yast2 is not just the best ever system tool, it also has a console version:

As root type this:

yast

Without the "2" it loads a non-GUI version so you can do this over SSH. Very nice

[SnugglesTheBear]

"'But what about if we're called upon to promote something which looks to be all glitz and glamour but is actually the lowest form of proprietary consumerist crap?' the PFY asks, while looking a number up on his iPhone."

I was trying to be that clever, but failed miserably >.<

[dinowuff]

Hey! What's wrong with Apple!?

-=Post was sent via Snuggle's Super Trendy and Cool iPad Touch=-

http://www.break.com/index/iphone-4-vs-htc-evo.html

[SnugglesTheBear]

haha nice dino =P My favorite is "It'll build you an island and then turn into a jet and fly you there!" "I don't care, I want an iPhone."

[instronics]

Please do forgive me for going a little step off topic here. Just a little point of interest in case some people didn't know:

SuSE Linux

The origins

The company started its activities as a service company, which among other things regularly released software packages that included SLS and Slackware, printed UNIX/Linux manuals, and offered technical assistance. In mid-1992, Softlanding Linux System (SLS, now defunct) was founded by Peter MacDonald, and was the first comprehensive distribution to contain elements such as X and TCP/IP.[citation needed] The Slackware distribution (maintained by Patrick Volkerding) was initially based largely on SLS, and the SUSE Linux distribution was originally a German translation of Slackware Linux.

Taken from:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SUSE_Linux_distributions

I didn't know about this for a very long time. I started out with only suse linux long time ago,and from all the distros i had tried since then, the only one that keeps me interested is pure slackware.

Now lets go back on topic. In a company i used to work for in athens, i do recall them running exchange on slackware. By the looks of it, slackware and suse have the same folder tree system (/etc/rc.d/) etc.... which many other linux distros don't seem to share. If i recall, even the BSD family has the same folder structures like suse and slackware, so i would not be surprised if someone could get exchange working on bsd? Maybe its a long shot at what i am saying, but would be worth a try to see

And as Gore has mentioned... Yast&Yast2 are true beautys. I do miss yast on slack sometimes.... but the tools available for maintaining slackware aswell as installing packages are just fine.

[HYBR|D]

Please do forgive me for going a little step off topic here. Just a little point of interest in case some people didn't know:

SNIP

I feel cheated, you weren't even off-topic that was a darn good read.

also got a good chuckle from your Signature.

[gore]

Please do forgive me for going a little step off topic here. Just a little point of interest in case some people didn't know:



Taken from:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SUSE_Linux_distributions

I didn't know about this for a very long time. I started out with only suse linux long time ago,and from all the distros i had tried since then, the only one that keeps me interested is pure slackware.

Now lets go back on topic. In a company i used to work for in athens, i do recall them running exchange on slackware. By the looks of it, slackware and suse have the same folder tree system (/etc/rc.d/) etc.... which many other linux distros don't seem to share. If i recall, even the BSD family has the same folder structures like suse and slackware, so i would not be surprised if someone could get exchange working on bsd? Maybe its a long shot at what i am saying, but would be worth a try to see

And as Gore has mentioned... Yast&Yast2 are true beautys. I do miss yast on slack sometimes.... but the tools available for maintaining slackware aswell as installing packages are just fine.

That's true SUSE, used to be SuSE, which used to be S.u.S.E., which, of course, was "Software und System-Entwicklung" which is German for "Software and Systems Development".

The first release of SUSE, was 4.2, which seems odd, unless you know "The Hitch hiker's Guide to the Galaxy" where "The Answer" is "42". That's why SUSE started at 4.2, it was a play on 42

They also used to make hardware, and they also do code audits like OpenBSD does, line by line, and have for a LONG time. Marcus Meissner, the head of security who does the patches and so on, is totally awesome. Every time I've talked to him, other than trying to get him to add BOFH articles to the manuals, I've gotten him to do patches for me personally.

I had a Kernel patch once mess up X and my Drivers for Nvidia, which, for the most part is normal, you have to reinstall them, but for some reason they REALLY messed up. I told him what I had running, and he went to work early that day to fix it for MY video card and set up. That was nice I though lol.

There was a time where here, if anyone had a problem with SUSE, they generally had my name in the title of their post, because I had pretty gotten it to a point where if it was SUSE, I pretty much could fix it for the most part.

I even managed to help someone getting it going on a Mainframe, which was really something lol.

I still have my SUSE Linux 8.1 Professional Calendar, lol. It's awesome. It's a full Calendar, and on the sides, it has the complete History up to that point in time, including how they started, and what they did with each version, and a date of when it happened. It's not only cool, you just don't see that kind of stuff anymore. I miss those SuSE stickers too, I still have mine lol.

[Cider]

Well **** ... I think I will give opensuse a try

Bear in mind I want to learn with suse

[HYBR|D]

Your "Man's" Only Decoder ring is in the mail, you can now destroy your "Sissy" AO Decoder ring accordingly as listed in the referenced chapter in the acceptable use policy in the memo that was sent out.

what V of Suse you going to grab and try out??

[gore]

How did you mix "Manly" and "Decoder ring" ?