Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (2702 mails)

[kf@xxxxxx (Kristian Farren)]

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From: Thorsten Kukuk <kukuk@xxxxxxx>

Do SuSE employees really talk to their customers this way? I haven't
commented on either side of this thread, but I was shocked to see a
reply like this from a SuSE employee. Maybe I'm just thin skinned.

>
> On Wed, Jun 02, Jeff Lasman wrote:
> >
> > > > 1/ suse will only support there prcompiled kernal , the will not
suport the
> > > > stock "kernal.org" kernals , as they haved added some fixes and
modified
> > > > the code somwhat. They told me that they will not suport the other
kernals.
> >
> > Really scary.  Where does SuSE document the changes they've made to the
> > kernel and why?  I haven't found any such disclosures.  So in effect,
> > what I'm getting isn't even Linux?
>
> Sorry, but I think you are not able to read ? Michael Hasenstein
> has post it very often the last days. rpm -qi lx_suse will
> show you, that we have updated some drivers which makes problems,
> ISDN because the original version doesn't work very well, and
> translated the kernel documentation in german for our german
> customers.
>
> >
> > > Precisely. Perhaps SuSE's plan is to force users to upgrade to an
'unsupported'
> > > kernel by hiding the supported one - and thus be able to deny them
support
> > > without giving any further reason. Like they did to me.
> >
> > If they're not distributing the kernel as released by Linus, then
> > they're not distributing Linux.  The FreeBSD people would have a field
> > day with this disclosure <wry grin>.
>
> Please read the GPL. You should do it. And our package is called
> SuSE Linux.
>
>
>   Thorsten
>
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> Linux is like a Vorlon.  It is incredibly powerful, gives terse,
> cryptic answers and has a lot of things going on in the background.
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