SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 11: Lots of Tech but Short on Polish

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Typical ZDNet

*"Over the last two weeks I?ve had the uh, pleasure of
evaluating a very recent release candidate for SUSE Linux Enterprise
Desktop 11."

What version was the release candidate?

*"The lack of developer packages or at least an option to include a
package feed during install time is an omission I take serious issue
with, as the environment should be self-hosting as a development
platform."

Developer packages are not included in SLED because it is not a
development platform. Repositories available for those that need
them.

*"According to Novell, this was a known issue due to a bad nVidia
repository at the time the release candidate was issued and should be
resolved on general release, but I have to question why they wouldn?t
warn me about this or just disable this routine in the installer until it
was resolved."

Bad nVidia repository would be a big problem if in the released
version, not in a sneak preview version on hardware different to that
supplied to preview on.

*"the default firewall settings are too aggressive and block SMB
filesharing, and SLED?s samba services aren?t started by default, so
Windows networking is broken out of the box"

Not broken, disabled by default - thank goodness!

*"Did I fix it? Yeah, all it required was disabling the firewall and
turning the samba services on as the superuser, but your typical end-
user in an enterprise environment would have no clue how as how to
do this, let alone your typical openSUSE user."

You did what???? Please stay away from *nix systems. Why not turn on
Samba and configure firewall access via YAST?

*"If Novell is assuming the enterprise or the OEM would do this during
image or scripted install deployment, it?s a stupid assumption
because not everyone is going to deploy desktops this way."

Actually most, if not all will. The feature is correctly implemented.

*"I tried installing Sun?s xVM VirtualBox by double-clicking on the
downloaded RPM file, only to discover that there were unresolvable
package dependencies because the ?pango-devel? pre-requisite
package was not installed."

Right it is not a development platform. Hello?

*"installed the update repository"

Wow, surprised?

*"MAKE THE DEVELOPER PACKAGE REPOSITORIES AVAILABLE ON THE
DVD."

Why? Is this also a criticism of windows installers?

More of the same from ZDNet.

Posted by: Richard Flude   Posted on: 03/23/09 You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use

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