mudlark wrote: > If a new user can't get the thing working easily from scratch the > "Linux is geekware" gets thrown around. This bug is so easy to fix as > it is just a dependency problem. So why hasn't it been fixed. The last > thing I want is to complain and complain, but this has been going on > for months now for no apparent reason.
Wait a minutes. You say that you are not facile with Linux, and you are then complaining that SqueezeBoxServer is not as wonderful as you want? Can I ask why you are using Linux instead of Windows or OS-X or whatever you are facile with? > linux users seem to me to be keen on the open source aspect and a good > deal of them want to see distros become accessible to the person in the > street. If the bug fixing is slapdash then ......... Open source software is about the people who use it making it better. > The support for semi literates such as me is exemplary, but the linux > experience isn't straight forward and it should be. I don't expect this to ever happen. It takes tons of engineering time and QA time and Product Management time to get the support/experience right. Firms like Apple and Microsoft have the resources and desire to do so for their products. There is no company with such resources anywhere in the same league as Apple or Microsoft. The geeks who develop Linux and the distros are geeks, they are not going to want to do this for free. I don't see it happening. -- Pat Farrell http://www.pfarrell.com/ _______________________________________________ unix mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/unix
