On Thu, 8 Nov 2001 23:06, you wrote: > Whatever the technical reasons, as a desktop user I am not really > interested in knowing all that.
However, if you subscribe *totally* to the consumer mentality you seem to be espousing while dealing with OpenSource (or its variants), you're in for a rocky path indeed. I'm not knocking you for that, but I personally expect to have to do a little bit of research, get to know about my own hard/software interactions, and check the releases from *any* source (even kernel.org) on a test machine before I roll it into production. That's the trade-off for having a huge distributed developer base, and an extremely low-cost product (free, if you want to) > 8,1 is really problematic, probably a > hurried release trying to keep up with SuSE , RedHat etc. in the release > cycle and not testing properly on different, commonly used hardware > configurations. .....So you've signed up on cooker, so that the release cycle can benefit from your contributions and add one more hardware configuration to their test bed?? ...and what exactly is a "commonly used hardware configuration". I personally haven't seen one on the PC-side in at least 5 years, in fact not since the pre-clone days :) -- 2 cents john in syd
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