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The Tuesday 2007-11-20 at 18:03 +0100, jdd wrote:
Sid Boyce wrote:
http://www.mandrake.tips.4.free.fr/opensuse10.3.review.html
Mentions of "for the uninitiated" sounds about right. To sidestep any
problems with the DVD, I've installed from Factory. Looks like the DVD
should have been delayed until it was compared with Factory for stability.
I think the reviewer attempted to be fair (he points to the URL to show
where he is coming from). Perhaps some pertinent pointers for 11.0.
Regards
Sid.
always the same garbage... the author say that he wouldn't give openSUSE to a
newcommer, but he try the install on a very special machine (grub on the root
partition, and he wonder why he can't reboot without editing the original
grub!!!), and when going to console he tries to use mandriva tools and don't
know yast is at hand.
so one people that wants to make all special by himself and wonder why
openSUSE don't do this automatically. May I say no distribution can do? and
on my own laptop, mandriva installs worst than openSUSE (what means little)
I don't find the review that bad.
I know how to have solved/avoided some of the problems he had, but simply
because I'm an experienced suse user. I would have probably similar
problems switching to any other distro. No big deal.
About those grub problems... he admits his setup is special (as special as
mine). A small modification would have solved those problems - just that I
know why, and he didn't. He probably didn't know his way about yast enough
to twiddle initial grub config. Yast during the first install allows
almost everything, and this, which I like, is probably confusing to a
newcomer.
It's just a problem of knowing "The SuSE Way of Things" :-P
Multimedia? He didn't know/discover about the one click install of
multimedia (xine et al), and for that we can not blame him, as it is not
advertised in big letters. We know of better links with better info than
some of those he used.
It is not "garbage". We are convinced suse users. He, they, are not. If we
want to bring people to our side, we have to pave the way for them; and
reading about the difficulties a new user finds, is a good way to know
which edges in our distro could be ironed out.
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Cheers,
Carlos E. R.
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