Samstag, 5. Januar 2008 Tom Patton: > I do not see this as a major issue, or one that fuels the MS war.
People who cannot fiddle around in root shells will definitely get the impression of a major issue going down when their supported and functional tv card stops working after an online update. Is it really that hard to understand what advice like "Oh, just open a terminal, become root, edit out some lines from /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist and reload a kernel module" does to ordinary people? > I'm > reasonably certain that the root cause will eventually be resolved, and > THEY will remove the black-list sheriff ANYWAY. They will probably not because there are loads of devices that need to be blacklisted, potentially. > Imagine the odds of even BEING ABLE TO WORK_AROUND in a MS system!!! > Good luck with THAT chore, sir. I'm sure this WOULD have been a windoz > show-stopper, with the only hope to wait 6 months for an update!!! Give > me SuSE ANY DAY! 3 months and counting ... https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=330109 The ubiquitous notion of linux geeks that their distributions are superior to any other commercial OS would gain some decent weight through serious bug-squashing. Mindlessly repeating it over and over does not make it any truer. It just makes us a laughing stock really. Wolfgang -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
