Learn from suse install to improve my Ubuntu install?

[ubuntu at rio.vg]

Senectus . wrote:
> 
> Because a running system isn't good enough.
> I'm finding the SLED documentation sparse and hard to find/navigate,
> the community elitist and closed mouthed and worse of all if there is
> any repository of software I can't find it or figure out how to add it
> to the YaST2 system ?!?!
> 
> It's driving me nuts not being able to easily install the apps I need
> to do my work.
> 

Recently, Novell forced SuSE to completely change their repository
system to the worst crud imaginable.  Yast is a great thing, and the
repository system it used to have was great.

With the newer version though, install apt.  I've found on my SuSE 10.1
systems, it's the only reasonable way to deal with package management.

Otherwise, the system has some very impressive things that Ubuntu lacks.
 Not only is yast the best configure system I've seen, but it also comes
with things like AppArmor, which is really sweet.  (It's effectively
chroot without the bother of actually having to create the root and path)