On Monday 05 January 2009 04:50:49 pm James Tremblay aka SLEducator wrote:
I think we can all agree that the initial install is what the community(aka "joe" and some testers)most dislike, I am told this is mostly do to kernel and major desktop changes.
It is easy to dislike, if you run in problems and there is no experienced Linux user around, then all you can do is to quit and forget. Example: Yesterday I got "install fest" at friends home. All I got to do is to install openSUSE on one older Compaq desktop, as a showcase. Older Compaq crashed kernel right after start with 11.0 and 11.1. I would be in trouble if he hadn't Knoppix that I have forgotten some time ago, and Knoppix worked. So after downloading newest one and fiddling with its instalation, old Compaq is now running Debian Linux. His laptop that wasn't even in consideration for installation, I used to see how DVD would boot, and it was just opposite story. Since all seemed fine, owner decided that he will give it a try, and lucky for openSUSE, Linux and me all worked fine. Even dreaded wireless worked at once, while in Windows he has some more work to do. Discussion about support, development etc, should happen after we decide to have something that runs almost everywhere. There is no point to split hair over development as long as we don't have something that installs on almost any piece of hardware, like Knoppix. I can talk about improvements in the newest version, but that makes sense to computer owner after installation. -- Regards, Rajko -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-project+help@opensuse.org