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A little more detail around my question :D

On January 4th, 2008 kris says:

I should mention I have been a loyal SuSe user since the 8.0. Yast is the main reason I went to the distro since I prefer a quick easy method of administration leaving more time for other things :D
Yes I agree that things seem to be improving however the time it takes to refresh package lists (on high bandwidth connections) is far from what it was prior to the merge of Red Carpet. Novell was chastised by several parties when this first happened and took the stance it was for the betterment of their product. In the last year I have started to dabble with Ubuntu and though there package management is not nearly as refined as Yast's it is considerably faster and utilizes much less processing. I for one would like to see SuSe decrease the time it takes to load, install and process the changes in their package manager in 1/10th the time it currently takes (with minimal extra repositories)

Overall I find SuSe to be one of the best Linux distros out there and put together in a logical and well defined way. Their file system layout is efficient and their stability is top notch.

I also use their "Pay" product and it is very much the same as far as package management is concerned. It does respond faster but I believe that is mainly due to a smaller number of packages overall included in that distribution.

Are there any other long term users that have noticed the same is the question I really meant to ask.

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