On Friday 02 December 2005 03:20 am, Dale & Yvonne Ogilvie wrote: > Flaky means software that doesn't quite work, not crashes. The hardware is > pretty solid I think, I can't remember a crash, even in windows... Some of > these may be garden variety Suse 10 bugs, or perhaps they are 64bit > specific. The pool of 64bit testers isn't near as big as 32bit ones. A > small example, I've just thrown Firefox 1.5 on there, and backed it out > again because "minimum font size" doesn't work. 8pt is too small for my > eyes! > > > > In Suse 9.3 if you found an rpm in konq a nice "Install with Yast" button > would appear - and it would work! Not so in Suse 10 64bit. Had to yast2 -i > as root in order to get OO2 final on. > > > > As to speed and 64bit code, extra speed is nice, but I won't trade "slower > working software" for something that doesn't work quickly. > > > > Dale
I have heard the open office does not work. I also remember when kde first started. There were a few bugs in it then. But they were quite quickly fixed. Ver 3.5 might already have got rid of most of them.
