I think you grossly ignore the main theme of my post. The theme is that� "I
have not had a good experience with SUSE of late" no where in my post was
that theme changed to my not having a good experience with LINUX. This is
evidenced by the fact that� I got Morphix/morpheus which is based on debian
LINUX to install on the same computer without a hustle. Oh and by the way
the same thing happened before, where I had to spend two days trying to get
SUSE to see a raid controller, Red Hat 8.2 happened to install first time
without any hustles.
My feeling these days is that certain things should not waste my
productivity time. I am more comfortable spending time on a computer to
actually do some work rather than to get it working. Honestly unless your
business is to install software on� computers or to support people who are
having problems installing software on their computers I cannot see what
you achieve by spending 3 days struggling to get an OS working especially
when there are several alternatives that work. The freedom to choose is one
of the advantages LINUX gives us.
Your view on linux being a hackers OS are pretty old fashioned in my
opinion. Yes, when we started out it was cool to spend weeks trying to get
a basic X windows to start before you even� thought about getting a window
manager to run correctly but that was 10 years ago. To catch my drift
please read the following post
http://www.kayodeok.co.uk/weblog/200403/02/user_interface.html
by a reknown hacker Eric Raymond about user interface design. One thing is
obvious though, linux is no longer a core geek OS it has gone mainstream,
this is the year 2004 my friend and not 1996 :).
Regards
CN
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To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
From: Mark Tinka <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent by: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: 07/29/2004 12:47PM
Subject: Re: lug_: Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr SuSE 9.1
On Wednesday 28 July 2004 09:34, Christopher Nambale/Bushnet wrote:
> Now I am trying 9.1 on an HP laptop and it cannot recognise the monitor
> type and cannot give me a resolution better than 640X 480, support for
> hardware acceleration with� ATi Radeon video adapter also fails.� I
> recompiled the kernel with the latest drivers from suse however now
Xserver
> does not start --something still to do with failing to recognise the
> monitor. Funny thing is that morpheus (whose developers admit is bug
> ridden) installs without a hustle.
While Linux is becoming more and more like Windows (user_friendly), let us
not
forget that it's still a hacker's OS, and will require a lot more than
_running_setup_ to get your applications working right. It will work, some
day, just not as quick as a double-click of the mouse.
If you remember this, you won't have problems.
Mark.
>
> Regards
>
> CN
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -----
>
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> From: Noah Sematimba
> Sent by: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Date: 07/28/2004 10:07AM
> Subject: Re: lug_: Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr SuSE 9.1
>
> On Wednesday 28 July 2004 18:56, Ernest Byaruhanga wrote:
> > my experience with SuSE 9.1 on a dell is a good one :)
> >
> > (only ACPI which is common on latest laptop models - known to give lots
>
> of
>
> > headache)
>
> FTR, I have had very nice experiences with SuSE on an Acer travelMate
C110
> ( tablet PC). �Got everything working including infra-red except for
> bluetooth which I am still fighting with.
>
> Works well on compaqs ( or should I say HP) DL380/580 �as well.
>
> Noah.
>
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