Linux Tyro said the following on 11/02/2011 04:37 AM:
On Wed, Nov 2, 2011 at 1:00 PM, Linux Tyro
wrote: http://rute.2038bug.com/node4.html.gz#SECTION00470000000000000000
Just want to know if all things work here as well in openSUSE.
I meant this book is for Redhat and Debain only or for use in openSUSE too, confused a little, please elaborate.
Linux is Linux is Linux. There are differences in details of administration, but so what? I can drive any automobile, left hand drive, or right hand drive, automatic or shift; three, four or five gear. I can drive pick-up trucks and vans. I can drive the BMW mini and fill sized Caddy. There is nothing special about that. Car rental companies, moving truck rental companies, rely on this 'interoperability.' Yes, some cars have wheel that have 4 lugs and bolts and some have five. Some small trucks and pick-up have ones with six. Will this bother you if you have to change a tire. Will it bother you of what you change is a 'tyre' rather than a 'tire'? Some engines have six cylinders, some have only four. Some even have eight - WOW! This bothers you when you put gas in the tank? What if you put petrol in instead? What if you have to change the spark-plugs? Some things amaze me, one is what I term "Learned Incompetence". For a basic user, the menu, the bottom bar, the layout of various mail programs (outlook, thunderbird, kmail, pegasus), web mail interfaces, word processors, spreadsheets and so on, running under windowing systems with built-in help and icons and pull-down menus are not blindingly different. What I'm saying is that if you can use Outlook you can use Thunderbird -- unless you've been conditioned by Microsoft that anything except Microsoft is unusable. This is probably the biggest hurdle with moving from Windows to Linux these days. And Tyro, you're doing some of this, making it all a bigger issue than it is. Like the Nike adverts say -- "Just Do It!" If you can drive the Honda Accord that is Windows you can drive the Buick Park Avenue that is Linux. -- Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but we rather have those because we have acted rightly. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit. -- Aristotle -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org