From: Greg Thomas
To: Don Hansford CC: suse-linux-e Subject: Re: [SLE] Alsa!! Date: Sat, 19 Aug 2000 10:27:34 -0700 (PDT) On Fri, 18 Aug 2000, Don Hansford wrote:
Rusty wrote:
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I'm pissed about this hard to configure, not very special, pain in the ass Alsa sound for Linux that you guys at suse have pushed on us. I'm not even interested in asking for help to fix this piece of crap, I
just
want to rant and get it out of my system.
Combining this Alsa thing with the wonderful crashing version of Netscape and your upgrades of KDE that break existing configurations of XF86 and cause users to have to reinstall; wonderful.
I would advise you guys to figure out how to make this "new and better" ideas you come up with install and run before you include it in your distribution.
OSS ran well, was easy to install but someone had a "better Idea". There are so many things in Linux that are so way behind Mickeysoft and need to be fixed why are you guys fooling around with something that works? If you really feel that the world cannot survive without a new and improved version of something, at least take the time to make the damn thing install and run without the user having to spend two hours configuring it. A pox on this system
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Rusty
Sorry Rusty, but my system works like a charm straight out of the box with 6.4! I have updated the netscape package. Shit happens. I don't use KDE, so that has never been a problem. I ran alsaconf from day 1 Remember, as much as we would all like it not to be, Linux is STILL a development system. It is not 100% perfect, and due to the open source model, possibly never will be! :-)
So it's ok for SuSE to be buggy? Why bother switching from Windows if one has less apps and a buggier, harder to setup system? It's attitudes like these that will prevent Linux from making it to the general user's desktop.
The bugginess issue on 6.4 is starting to push me towards Debian or FreeBSD.
What to heck. I have been running 6.4 since 4 weeks and I can't see a flaw. I didn't investigate it as much as 6.2 but everything seems to run fine? Can somebody make a list of these ultimate huge flaws everybody is talking about? I been using SuSE since 5.3 and let me tell you getting my stuff up back then was a pain compared to today. It seems like there is some people who have been spoiled here or still evuluate Linux from a Windows standpoint. I wish people quit doing that. SuSE and Win are in two different ballparks and bear no comparison. SuSE delivers free software for multiple platforms; server and client. win is an OS for a desktop x86 architecture (excl server versions). Maybe SuSE should start shipping again its old versions to prove there is positive change happening. =) How about adding a 7th CD to the professional versions and have it contain SuSE 5.0 or something like that haha mk ________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe@suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/support/faq
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