begin Tony Alfrey's quote: | I happen to be on the suse list also (but don't use it much). | Ever since 8.1 came out, the amount of angst and problems seem to | have risen considerably on that list. For you suse'ers, is this | just new users or does it seem that 8.1 might have been a little | "rushed"??
there's angst on the suse list with *every* release, until the workarounds are discovered and added to the common lore. in this regard, it's not enormously different from other distribution lists. you'll notice that many of the complaints are yast-related. on red hat, many of the complaints are related to their updater. i suspect that the ximians hear much the same thing. this has to do, imho, with the apparent fact that when you set up all kinds of automated bells and whistles, it does not reduce but instead changes the things you need to learn, not unlike the move from manual to automatic cameras, in which you needed to learn just as much, only this time it had little to do with photography and instead now had to do with automated systems specific to that particular camera. for those who already knew photography, this meant learning how to override the favors the camera company had done for them so, allowing the photographer to make use of his photographic skills. it would be far better, imho, if linux the things linux distributions required us to know had to do with linux rather than with the particular distribution's way of doing things. we're turned into a little bit of a tower of babel. -- dep http://www.linuxandmain.com -- outside the box, barely within the envelope, and no animated paperclip anywhere. _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc -> http://www.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
