Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (507 mails)

[Peter Nikolic <p.nikolic1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I have used Opensuse now for some years  since the days of 5.3 in fact and 
Linux in general well before that since the days of the Early 0.9 kernels all 
floppy distro no X   i also ran Slackware  and Red Hat  and tested a few more 
along the way so i know a thing or two about Linux  i have even brewed up my 
own distro at one time .


It has to be said now after attempting to get  11.2 MS2  and 11.2 MS3 to play 
the game the standards of releases has fallen to a new all time low  how on 
earth have you got the front to call these releases anything other than Alpha 
at best .

The sound system is a total mess this pulseaudio thing is what nothing more 
than a total blight on the system  there needs to be a choice for users risk 
pulseaudio or can that and run safe Alsa sound system .  I know you are going 
to say Alsa  doesn't do this or that but unlike pulseaudio it never failed to 
work it never chopped the audio 

Beagle ! what a total pain and complete resource hog once again it needs to be 
a LOT easier to un-install or not install at all  With the requisite warning 
for those that do install it beware it will hog your CPU for excessive amounts 
of time  , Likewise Nepomuk .

KDE  now i actually don't happen to believe all that has been said about the 
use of or rather almost ENFORCED use of KDE4.x    and whilst it is sort of 
shaping up it will not be ready for the 11.2 release no way   too much still 
don't play ball nice at all and needs  sorting a lot to do with multimedia  
just plain does not work  or if it does thanks to the enforced use of that 
pulseaudio stuff jitters and skips or as happens here when playing a DVD it 
stops then repeats a sylable carries on for a few seconds then does the same 
again  well i spose if you like Norman Collier that's all well and good  i 
think he's a prat  .

It seems now that no one actually gives a monkeys about the standards of the 
releases now that some members of staff have been dispensed with  it seems  
and quite probably others the wrong staff members were dispensed with what is 
it going to take to get this distro back on track and back to a decent 
standard  , Even the Ill fated 10.0 was far better than 11.2 is right now and 
arguably better than 11.2 as well.

Then we have this whole License thing about codecs and DVD playing software  
things like DHT as well  , People purchase a distro and rightfully so expect 
to be able to install it  bang in a DVD and have it play not go faffing around 
having to instantly pollute a new install with essentially foreign packages  
not everyone has a good enough Internet connection to do that any way   , 
maybe it is time for Opensuse to find a new home where German licensing rules 
don't apply .

This mail is aimed squarley at the Opensuse team who o know will call me for 
everything under the sun plus some  it is a two way street don forget i have 
gripes with quite a few there who's attitudes STINK  but i am not interested 
in them right now  , Contray to the comments that will come in from one in 
perticular  a lot of the content of this email will be agreed by a 
considerable number of people  a lot will keep stum they dont want their name 
to appear  thats  ok by me  some may just get brave enough to agree fair 
dincum blue   but do not for one moment think i am a one off  this world is 
full of people that think one thing and say another  for the sake of not 
standing out    

There is a lot more i could mention maybe i will shortly but one thing is for 
sure the situation as of this moment is a total disgrace to the SuSe name and 
a very poor shadow of it's former good name  sort it out people , There is no 
point being the first ones to release something if it is a complete screwup  a 
little more time in the R&D and less in the sales will work wonders


Pete .