Am Mittwoch, 15. Februar 2006 10:06 schrieb Stephan Binner: > On Tuesday, 14. February 2006 19:13, David Wright wrote: > > Anyway, there have been a few major changes to the beta release of 10.1 > > in > > [..] > > > Having the information available buried in the archives of the mailing > > list which doesn't have a search function is not exactly helpful for > > casual users or thise interested in trying out SUSE, they come to the > > site and see next to no information on what is going on. > > You should really visit http://opensuse.org before posting I think, there > is a news box on the front page, there is a news page - both pointing to a > sum- mary of the changes you're complaining not being visible to casual > users. > > Bye, > Steve >
What is pointed to is a couple of lines about the KPM being available for non-GPL Kernel drivers to be converted to the new method. For driver writers already familiar with the situation it is a good pointer of where to go to find out how to write compliant drivers, for the average user it just raises a hell of a lot more questions than it answers... Leading to the FUD we are seeing, like the AVM discussion on the Factory list. It does not provide detailed information about what is changing (i.e. what exactly does it mean in terms of what the end user ends up with after an upgrade, will the packages be optionally available through the package manager, or are Novell throwing away the goodwill of existing users by making them trawl the net for replacements for things that used to be automatically configured?), why it is changing, what the current situation is in regard to the involvement of manufacturers re-writing their drivers to support the new method and what fallback plans Novell/openSUSE have if the drivers don't appear in time, so that users aren't stuck with broken installations after an upgrade. Dave --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
