[NTLUG:Discuss] What is the deal with SuSE

Leroy Tennison leroy_tennison at prodigy.net
Fri Aug 19 04:37:12 CDT 2005


Chris Cox wrote:

>SUSE historically did much of its own hotplugging since most of
>it was missing from Linux.  Now they have switched to trying
>to use what Linux (proper) comes with... IMHO, it still needs
>some maturing.  
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I'm glad to see that I'm not alone in my thinking.

>If you come to the meeting this Saturday, you'll see what
>I'm talking about.  Or you can run hwinfo yourself.
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Yes, ran hwinfo.  Detected quite a few things but missed others (my 
ViewSonic A70 monitor and, of course, the mouse).

>SUSE breaks their man pages down sometimes into smaller
>packages.  You will need to install the X11 man pages
>separately.  They don't get installed by default.  Whether
>that is is good or bad is subjective.  The X11 man pages
>are a large set... but at the same time, it's still just
>text... so not that big of deal (IMHO).
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Oh, that explains a bunch.  I tried 'man xorg.conf', 'man XF86Config', 
'man Xorg.conf' to no avail.  Now, is there any easy way to tell which 
packages are installed for which help hasn't been installed?

I appreciate the feedback, thanks.

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