[Lilux-help] suse8.1 yast and ftp solved

[Jay Christnach]

Hi again,

Brent was right: yast depended on wget to work with ftp. It's now much 
easier to handle packages. Also it's a good idea to use only packages 
from the initial system whenever possible. I had the experience that 
when I used stuff I found at rpmfind.net for ex. that I had to solve a 
real chain reaction of dependencies. This is also true for debian, which 
I use with all graphical bells and whistles on this machine, and apt is 
very good on this, the system is in a state between stable and testing 
and if I want a newer version of a program I simply type "apt-get 
upgrade package" and everything is done automagically often pulling 10s 
of MB of packages from the repository.
(I'm writing this from windows now, because I'm earning a few bugs 
updating webpages for www.landesverband.lu and they use an awful cms 
which relies on asp and a msword plugin, I hate it)

For Brent:
I'm not really involved professionnally with linux stuff, I'm only 
helping a one-man firm which does web-development from time to time with 
the more linux-specific issues. (I'm a EE student who needs to earn 
money (only 9120 €/year from the ministry))
If you want to promote your services and send a cd, you can find my 
friends address at www.aquariusmedia.lu. But I don't think he will 
switch the provider once again, I think he is quite happy currently: 
uptime > 400 days and once something works it does so permanently, 
that's the linux way :-)

BTW I'm still looking for a job during summer vacation, so if somebody 
would need a temporary helping hand which likes linux (among other 
things) and knows how to use it....

I hope I didn't bother you too much with the personal stuff above. I'm 
reading this mailing lists for a long while now and I'm happy that there 
is a lug here and people who are promoting open source. I'd like to see 
you once personnally at a meeting, but I'm too busy most of the time to 
attend them. Also, I still have to pay my member fee for this year....

wrote too much now ... greetings to everybody !