On Thu, Jan 24, 2008 at 11:02:20AM -0600, David C. Rankin wrote: > peter wrote: > >Marcus Meissner schrieb: > > > >For my part, this trouble was just an unnecessarily waisted spare time. > >Thus IMO the easiest way would be to inform the common user of critical > >issues and not to reproach him with trusting mandatory updates. > >But as always I might be wrong... > > > > No, I think you are right-on-point. This dovetails nicely with the > recent thread of "Why aren't more people using Linux"... The fix is easy > for most, but I recall when I was just learning Linux, something like > this would cause hours of waisted time and great frustration searching > the web, lists and bug reports trying to fix it. This will all get > better once we have better support from the hardware vendors, but until > then Linux will lose a large percentage of people who try it for just > this type of reason.
Yes. :/ However for NVIDIA and ATI they both make it easy with YUM repositories to add, which likely would have avoided this problem. Btw, the next breakage is coming up with the next openSUSE 10.3 kernel security update, which will again break the manual installed NVIDIA and ATI kernel modules. Ciao, Marcus -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
