Re: [SLE] Sometimes Linux makes me crazy.

From: Andre Truter (andre.truter_at_gmail.com)
Date: 02/28/05

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    On Mon, 28 Feb 2005 03:05:51 -0500, Allen <gorebofh@comcast.net> wrote:

    >
    > > Nothing but trouble with 9.1 and 9.2.
    >
    > Funny after installing it on 5 machines I've yet to have one problem. They
    > are nothing alike in hardware, one is a Compaq, an old HP, a Dell Laptop,
    > and a Medion.
    >

    Funny enough, I also don't have any problems with SuSE 9.2.
    I have it running on a wide variety of machines, PI MMX, PII, PIII,
    PIV, Pentium M, Athlon and Sempron. It runs without problems on all
    of them.

    I do all kinds of things on the machines, from watching DVD and all
    kinds of video formats, right through to development work and servers.

    I have had problems with certain canon printers, but there is no
    driver for it, because canon does not support Linux very well.
    I can hardly blame Linux for this, especially if I take into account
    that 90% of the software is written by people that do not get paid for
    it and a lot of the drivers are written without much much help from
    the vendor.

    You go and try to write a driver for a piece of equipment with limited
    API information and no support from the vendor.

    If you go to SuSE's site and look at the supported hardware list, then
    you can complain only about hardware that is listed there. If it is
    not listed there, then you have no ground of complaining.

    Anyway, I think that Linux is wonderful, especially if you think that
    this is software written and maintained mostly by people doint it in
    thier free time and it competes with software written by people that
    get paid to do it. I am quite happy with Linux, and if something
    does not work, then I can help out by trying to fix it.
      

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