Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (1318 mails)

[Robert E A Harvey <bobharvey@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Lars Müller wrote:
> On Sun, Nov 02, 2008 at 02:29:13AM +0100, Carlos E. R. wrote:

> > I don't understand, there is no problem. When you boot, you will see a menu 
> > like (invented numbers):
> >
> >   title openSUSE 11.1 - 2.6.27.4-2
> >   title openSUSE 11.1 - 2.6.27.4-1
> >   title openSUSE 11.1 - 2.6.27.3-5
> >
> > What's the problem with that? Because that's the way it is handled, AFAIK.
>
> A new user might not know how to handle three different offers.


This is precisely what Ubuntu does, and people seem to cope with that
remarkably well.


> Therefore it might be useful to "hide" the opportunities but have them
> available on request.

I had to edit a config file somewhere on nmy Ubuntu system to cut the
number of old versions saved down to 6, because the list got longer than
the screen after a while!  It was all in there, though, and next time
there was an update the list shortened.

Bob H

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