Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (4570 mails)

[devosc <devosc@xxxxxxxxx>]

Thats probably what all this is about and maybe why Novell are
focusing on Gnome, probably way off base here so dont flame me for it
:)...

For example (just a thought came to me), Novell probably has a good
idea of what the largest majority of users desktops are from the
online updates (I'm guessing here)...

So in order to better address the compatibility issues for this larger
(Gnome) user base they're focusing in this area (or they simply have
other reasons for pushing Gnome etc).

My comments, and thoughts, are as a humble user, I gave up the trying
to do the install packages thing (over a year ago, I tried to DIY
upgrade Gnome) and now only rarely install packages provided there is
a SuSE rpm for it, if not, I just settle for whatever versions are in
the distro currently used... Obviously there is a broad spectrum of
SuSE userships, and for the most part (in my case) one could say that
the SuSE distro (and YaST updates) is my System Administrator (and
thus I can only put up with figuring out the install/config stuff once
a year --- in all previous instances it has been either when my hard
drive died, or when a better version of Gnome was available etc)...

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devosc