On Tuesday 30 January 2007 02:28, Bryan S. Tyson wrote:
> produces WinDVD. Imagine my stunned disappointment when it failed to run,
> seemingly because of a programming error. The error message referred to an
> error on a certain line number. How in the world could Mandriva include a
> totally broken application in the distro? 

Unfortunately, this is not uncommon with Mandrake/Mandriva.

> Sadly, my test of Suse 10.2 only lasted a few days. Overall I thought it
> was nice, but I just could not tolerate the slowness of the package
> management system. Times of 30 minutes were not unusual just to add 1 new
> program (in my case). 

Use Smart?

Incidentally, Linspire/Freespire are about to launch a new version of 
Click'n'Run which is slated to cover all the main distros.  The idea is not 
unlike (or nicked from?) the Novell BuildService, but slanted considerably 
more towards the end-user.  Presumably they will just create a central 
link-point to the various repositories around the place.  It will be 
interesting to see how it develops - as with all Linspire stuff, it certainly 
*looks* nice.

-- 
Pob hwyl / Best wishes

Kevin Donnelly

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