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Saturday·25·March·2006

SuSE sucks! //at 02:24 //by abe

from the frustration dept.

Since SuSE closes the security support two years after release and the recent KDE JavaShit remote code execution hole wasn’t patched as fast as I would have expected it (the patch came out after the upgrade I’m writing about here) in the SuSE 9.0 which was installed on my 2.66 GHz AMD desktop at work (it started as in 2002 as a SuSE 7.3 on a 400 MHz box and has been upgraded since then to 8.0, 8.2 and 9.0 IIRC), I decided, it’s now really time to upgrade to SuSE 10.0. (Although 10.1 will be out soon, I just don’t want to wait for it.) And since my boss only wants SuSE boxes and neither Debian (which I would prefer) nor Gentoo (which a colleague prefers), I couldn’t simply install Sarge on this box although I would have chosen that option if it would have been available.

Since my former SuSE experiences told me that this would mean a lot of trouble, I took notes from the beginning, once for the blog and once for my boss to show him, that most trouble doesn’t come from me being a power user used to being allowed to touch any config file (like I am on Debian).

Preparations

So I begin with the preparations: Starting the 400 MHz Debian Woody box on my desktop (whose operating system is more than a year older than SuSE 9.0 and still has security support, yeah!) I usually need to build custom Debian packages for customers. There I could chat in IRC and took notes while trying to upgrade and get the whole thing working again.

When everything was ready, I put the SuSE DVD in — just to notice, that it’s just a CD-ROM. So I put the SuSE 10.0 CD1 in the CD-ROM drive and typed “sudo shutdown -r now” in the shell. The box starts shutting down and tells me:

Please stand by while rebooting the system…

But it didn’t reboot. I waited for several minutes, nothing happend. Well, seems as if the SuSE upgrade already starts as I expect it to end: Horrible.

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Thursday·02·March·2006

SuSE: Amüsantes im Abo //at 01:35 //by abe

Aus der Marketing Abteilung

Ein Blog-Eintrag bei Jörn (das Blog habe ich über einen Blog-Kommentar bei nion entdeckt) erinnerte mich daran: Gestern kam in der Firma die SuSE 10.0 aus dem Abo an. Was mich am SuSE-Abo ja am meisten amüsiert sind die Werbesprüche auf der Packung:

Früher (bis SuSE 7.3) waren da ja mehr amüsante als hilfreiche Texte drauf, so z.B. die Fragen der FAQ:

  • »Nach der Installation bekomme ich immer die Fehlermeldung “login:”. Was mache ich falsch?«
  • »Ich habe mich eingeloggt und sehe nur “linux #” – Wie komme ich denn nun in Linux hinein?«
  • »Ich habe mir versehentlich einen Kernel kompiliert. Wie bekomme ich wieder den originalen SuSE-Kernel installiert?«

Danach kam erstmal eine Weile Bücherwerbung auf den CD-Verpackungen, seit einiger Zeit aber wieder zumindest milde amüsantes Marketingblabla:

  • »Keine langwierigen Downloads, direkt von CD oder DVD installieren« — Hmmm, warum habe ich mir (bzw. in meinem Fall der $BRÖTCHGEBER) das Zeugs wohl gekauft?
  • Oder der hier: »[…] im openSUSE-Projekt […] treffen sich Linux Entwickler, Software Designer, und Anwender, um die beste Linux Distribution weltweit zu entwickeln.« — Ahja, kaum tut man so, als sei man keine kommerzielle Linux-Distribution mehr, darf man größenwahnsinning werden? Wobei, ja, ich vergaß: Vergleichende Werbung für kostenlose Dinge ist ja schon seit Ewigkeiten in .de erlaubt. (Von den ganzen fehlenden Bindestrichen des Marketingsprechs will ich hier mal abgesehen…)

Aber nicht nur der Amüsantheitsfaktor, auch die Qualität der Verpackung wird immer schlechter: CDs und DVDs sind diesesmal in Papiertüten in einer kleinen Box. Das letzte Mal war’s wenigstens noch ein Pappheftchen mit unübersichtlich vielen Faltungen… Tja, früher war halt auch bei SuSE alles besser. (Bis auf YaST oder so… ;-)

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