Re: Re: Linux Alone With Sync
  By: poindexter FORTRAN to Moondog on Sat Feb 15 2020 06:20 am

 > -=> Moondog wrote to Tony Langdon <=-
 > 
 >  Mo> I recall when I was first looking into linux, Red hat and Slackware
 >  Mo> were getting all the attention.  Suse was bought up by Novell.
 > 
 > Before Novell bought SuSe, they licensed AT&T SYSVr4.2, added some Novell
 > core protocol drivers and software, wrapped Motif WM around it and called it
 > UNIXWare. That was one of my first forays into UNIX.
 > 
 > I liked SuSe; I had a couple of clients back in the first dot-com boom
 > running it; I was mostly a FreeBSD and RedHat guy back then.
 > 
 > I had a boss who thought its integration with our Novell network was nifty,
 > then put it in our DMZ as a bastion host where it couldn't talk to the
 > Novell network. Oops.
 > ... Faced with a choice, do both

My first books on linux came with the retail version of SuSe 8.2 Professional
I purchased at Best Buy.  The kit came with two books - one of gneral stuff
for the base edition, then another on the additional software bundled with
the pro version.  Their "killer app" they bragged about was Yast (yet another
setup tool.)  It was a graphical toolkit which gave you similar abilities as
Control Panel in Windows.  The books helped out alot.  The base book was
geared toward a novice user and dealt more with installation and navigating
the gui, while the second book got into networking and file sharing and file
permissions.  Cool part of the kit was an included repository DVD.  For a user
 trapped in the boondocks with only dialup as the only option at the time,
this was a blessing.

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