Kunael wrote:
I'm completely agree with you. An add one more: I've got the feeling that one
mistake has been try to include more than enough things. So, we've several
examples (IMHO), such as:
- Packet management. YaST (packet manager module), YUM, Smart, APT4RPM,
Kick.. ¿are really needed all of these? Sometimes I feel it as a joke. I
think the way is concentrate the efforts in _ONE_ package management
solution.
- YaST. Without any kind of doubts, YaST has been, is and will the main
strengh of SUSE. So... ¿Is it recieved the needed atention and developing
improvement? Personally, I don't see a great improvements since 8.2/9.0
versions.
I repeat: IMHO. Obviously I appreciate sincerely the efforts of developers
(SUSE team and contributors from community) but there're things to improve.
So, I throw a hard question to resolve:
¿Why Ubuntu is more popular tha SUSE despite thier young life?
Simple Ubuntu will install on all sort of hardware that OpenSuSE and
SuSE will not.
Some will disagree but then there concept of what is meant by install is
very different than most people.
I have an IBM Thinkpad A30P. Recall here that IBM is a very big
supporter of Linux.
Fortunately I purchased a second HD for test purposes as commercial SuSE
10.1 on first attempt installation did not install a win modem, the Fn
key does not work, the F1 to F12 keys do not work, UV does not work, and
since I did the installation with connecting the computer to DSL there
is no way to add a DSL connection or wireless connection.
In short SuSE 10.1 is only half finished suitable only for desktops
which raises a very profound managemental question (that is managemental
question to punchasers of SuSE products) : Why would I (as a manager)
purchase technical support from a company that is so incompetent that
their wham bang operating system will not install on my laptop. Windows
does and it works just fine thus there must be something drastically
wrong with that trash so our firm will just stick to Windows.
Now there are some that will be appalled at that attitude but that is
precisely the attitude that corporate executives have.
The answer to your question is simple SuSE 10.1 is half finished.
This was noted by myself at the OpenSuSE 10.1 Beta 8 level and a full
and detail bug report was issued by myself after at Beta 9. Email back
from SuSE stated that the issue with the modem was that the modem is not
open source and would be included in the commercial version. Purchase of
the commercial version by myself and installation on a test HD gave the
above noted results and this after Mandrake 10.1 installed and worked
and still does on the normal HD used in the computer. Now just think
what would be my attitude toward having SuSE migrate a corporate IT
department to Linux away from Windows if I was some high level corporate
executive. Personally I can assure you that I would be much more
impressed with a system that would install even if it crashed daily than
one that refuses to install.
So what is the problem? Simple there are developers who have the ability
to developer which means daily change and there are users who have
interest which demand complete stability and no change in the system and
a fully functional operating system with a minimum of hassle. The
developers are in aw with how great the latest Linux features are while
the users are horrified at their inability to make Linux work and the
constant change. On a practical matter change should be limited to the
Internet and downloads. Commercial level CD should be rock solid stable
and install on anything. Which is not the situation so sophisticated
users simply go elsewhere Ubuntu.
Maybe the response of that question can help the grow and improving of our
community.
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