On Saturday 23 December 2006 17:14, John wrote: > I'll tell you what this patent protection did for me. > > I had a nearly fully functioning SUSE 10.0 system. I never could get the > nVidia driver to install and work for 3D video, although it worked fine > in SUSE 9.2 Professional.
Sounds like a personal problem to me....PEBCEK anyone? > > I made the mistake of upgrading to openSUSE 10.2 and now I'm regretting > it big time. Mplayer was uninstalled by the upgrade, and none of my > multimedia apps work cause of file format patents, from what I can tell > by the big warning about patents on a Novell web page. I never saw or > heard a peep out of Novell about patents before this Microsoft "deal". I > think Novell got shafted by Microsoft. Time will tell, especially if MS > ends up acquiring Red Hat (heaven forbid the financial experts are wrong). Sigh, another crossover loser from COLA... ...though I agree that Novell should show some cajones and provide multimedia in their system like Xandros does, it really isn't a big deal. I mean, take a stock verson of WinXP or Vista and see what happens when you stick a commercial Region 1 DVD in. <insert Jepardy music here> As anyone can tell you, getting popular codes to play multimedia takes about five minutes of your time. http://www.perfectreign.com/stuff/suse/desk_dvd_lg.jpg http://www.perfectreign.com/stuff/suse/desktop+mp3.jpg http://www.perfectreign.com/stuff/suse/2006/happyfeet1.jpg This has been true of any version since I started using SUSE during 9.1 days. > > Why in the heck did openSUSE 10.2 have to remove a perfectly functioning > Mplayer and leave me with a broken Kaffeine (which worked great before) > and broken Noatun and broken XMMS, etc. I can't play any video formats > now or burn any CDs. This is really pitiful. Again, PEBCEK - you screwed up. Too bad... ..so sorry. > > I'm really disgusted with what this upgrade has done. And why so many > file updating programs? There's Yast, Yum, Smart, openSUSE Update, > Synaptic, and a few more I can't remember at the moment. How in the > world is a Windows user ever gonna convert and deal with so many > choices? I did. My mom did. My wife is in the process. Not too hard. > The strangest thing of all is how the documentation compares > Smart to Yast and Yum and shows how superior it is to both. Then why > include Yast and Yum anymore? Just provide Smart package manager and be > done with it. Package management in Linux leaves a lot to be desired, > compared to Windows Add/Remove Program and Setup programs. Linux = choices. Hey, some people even like the command line - or worse - Gnome. What can I say? > > Is Windows ready for prime time? I wish, but unfortunately, that's > not the present situation. fixx0red your post. -- kai www.perfectreign.com || www.4thedadz.com a turn signal is a statement, not a request -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
