Re: (OT) Hedge Fund Wants Novell

On Friday 05 Mar 2010 11:15, while playing with a tin of spray paint,
houghi painted this mural:

David Bolt wrote:

It has and it hasn't. The development of KDE is out of Novells hands,
but the decision to include it was very firmly in their hands.

They were, but they also included other options. So blaming the distro
where the user has a choice is not fair, I think.

But that would require people to take responsibility for their own
choices and actions, and most people will pass the buck if they can.

That said, I can only guess as to why the OP thinks it is so bad after
Novell took over. It could be that he dislikes zypper

That horrible command line software management utility? The one that's
got a lot faster with each release? The one that

or the
one-click-install

I'm divided over this. I think it's a pretty good idea, but I
personally aren't too sure if I like it or not. What's worse is that I
can't say _why_ I'm not sure about it.

or the layout of YaST

That's one thing I'm not too happy about. I'd have preferred they stick
to the older layout, but at least they've left the ncurses layout alone
so I'm not really that unhappy.

or the colours they selected

I couldn't care less what the colours are, at least for the desktop or
log-in screen. I tend to change them to what I want as soon as I can.

or
the fact that you can't wriote SuSE anymore and openSUSE is too long to
write.

And you can't use S.u.S.E, and SUSE isn't right for the openSUSE
releases.

The latter one however was a decidion made by the users to make it clear
that there is a difference is between SUSE and openSUSE

Yes. Doesn't stop someone bitching at Novell because of that change
though.

Or perhaps the fact that /home is now standard a seperate partiotion by
default

That was a good idea and I really can't understand why it wasn't so
back in the 5.x and 6.x releases. I know I always had a separate /home
even if I had to create it myself. It was just the logical thing to do.

or that you have a red prompt if you are root.

I like to have different colours for my root consoles[0], although
that doesn't work out when using "su -" so the prompt does make it
easier to see I'm not a normal user.

Those to are both
things that happend after Novell took over and the person who sugested
that should be shot because he is an idiot.

Maybe even twice. Those glasses aren't really that big.


[0] I've configured konsole so that when I need to use a root console,
I get a black background with green text so, even without the red
prompt, I still know which console is root and which is a normal user.

Regards,
David Bolt

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