On Mon, 06 Oct 2003 13:26:52 +0100
Mark
Nice work if you can get it! Hehe. I think all you guys do a fantastically good job but maybe you're getting caught in a no-win as Linux user patterns change. Judging from news groups, a lot of new users head straight for the multimedia section and then start asking how to build or rebuild the apps to provide all the ripping, playing, encoding, etc. stuff that they've come to take for granted on er other
What is granted? Is it granted you can build up Windows Media Player optimized for your architecture? Have you ever read the EULA? Have you ever read the EULA of most shareware/addware/spyware expecially filesharing proggies and media players? Come on... such stuff works out of the box in Linux too, modulus some license for MP3 and such kind of stuff. If people what to be bleeding edge they have to pay for it, in terms of time if they have or in terms of money if they have. I hope I'll never see SuSE Personal, SuSE Professional, SuSE Dumb. Consider every upgrade of Office cost you a lot of Euro (and a bit more USD <g>)... keeping yourself on the bleeding edge for commercial software is quite expensive... and Windows shareware/freeware is not that bleeding edge. Beside the fact that as a customer of SuSE I like to put pressure on them to give me what I like, I've to make reasonable requests. I would like they will put pressure on other vendors to make Linux and RPM distributions more and more standard (cos I don't like to be obliged to be faithfull). I would like they definitively change YaST license. I would like they reduce the number of "who know them" packets and keep more uptodate eg. OpenOffice. What I like is they invest in KDE, kernel (hi Andrea), gcc developement. I appreciated they added more packages to the download section so now you can keep uptodate KDE, X, Samba, Apache and Gnome... Can we ask some more? ;) just 3 or 4 more ;) At 2h for package at 1600 Eur/day it shouldn't be a too huge investment for SuSE ;) You'd put up a voting system for that. My youth is gone, the period when I enjoyed to try everything passing nearby my PC died afer a long agony... Having bleeding edge rpm is not anymore a priority, response time for security patches IS. I bet that if SuSE is really interested in further standarization of Linux, building up your own rpm will get easier and easier... OK back to something less phylosopical