Ubuntu a poor choice for servers

[Scott Kitterman]

On Tue, 11 Jul 2006 09:06:05 -0400 ubuntu at rio.vg wrote:


>The current version of SuSE's update system sucks hard.  It looks like
>Novell forced them to use ZenWorks in some sort of misguided attempt to
>drum up sales, and it seriously backfired.
>
>I'm seriously worried about SuSE's future, with more Ximian folks and
>Novell execs calling the shots.  That said, YaST is really nice.
>

I have Kubuntu on the desktop today because YaST as released with opensuse 
10.1 was totally non-functional for installing updates.  My attempts to 
manually apply fixes based on SuSE guidance only led me further into the 
maze.

While historically SuSE has bee a good place to start, 10.1 was so broken 
that it is not suitable, IMO, for production use by anybody, let alone 
someone without a strong technical background.

Scott K