On Wed, Jun 18, 2008 at 12:14 PM, Brian K. White
And some people don't even have a computer. So? So you have a computer that no longer meets the requirements of current OS's big whup. So install 10.3 You are avoiding upgrading your hardware, so what's so unreasonable about expecting you to avoid upgrading your software?
That's not the point. It's a matter of return on investment to upgrade. So I should replace my Thinkpad with the P3/500? It runs openSUSE just fine. So my son's Powerbook runs it slowly, but it runs it.
Complaining you can't run FF3 on opensuse 8.1 is just inventing problems to complain about. (I don't think that was you but it was raised in this thread and servs as an example)
Someone else pointed out that you could install on older version, and I pointed out that I tried to install FF2(not 3) on v8.1, and it wouldn't work. So, it's not useful to use an older copy of the distro versus the current.
It's not just old machines. I recently paid almost $3k for a great little sub-note, the very latest of everything (Vaio TZ series), that couldn't install the very latest freebsd, or any freebsd, using the stock hardware (which includes a cd/dvd-dl+-rw).
And BSD generally doesn't offer the same level of hardware support that Linux does. Only CRUX Linux, openSUSE, and NetBSD "Officially" support Old World Macs.
There are no cd's for 11.0 get over it. Install 10.3 or put out the teeny amount of effort to use some other way.
The question was WHY they weren't available. So we just abandon users who aren't as knowledgable as you when they can't figure out the offered work arounds?
A few have been suggested that would work even without any usb ports. Some aren't even more work.
Again, these are solutions for experienced people. I am trying to argue for those with less experience. While I find them useful, I don't neccessarily need them. There are other who may need them.
I have machines that can't install opensuse 11.0 either. I don't consider it suse's fault or even a problem in the first place.
I never said it couldn't install. I said that I have to jump through hoops to install because of the lack of support for CD medium. As I also pointed out, just having a DVD drive doesn't mean you can even burn the DVD Isos. I'm looking at 4 computers and only 1 has a DVDRW drive. 2 have DVD-CDRWs and the other has only a CD drive. If I didn't have the DVDRW here, I'd be unable to burn the medium to begin with. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org