"Timothy R. Butler" wrote:
Well, it wasn't really serious. However, it was annoying that out of the box, two of the three graphical package managers I know of (Kpackage, xrpm, and Gnorpm) didn't work. But, as I have said, I don't use SuSE full time yet - I'm hoping with KDE 2 Beta 4 ("Koolout") that I might finally migrate from Windows - but I haven't yet. So, I would imagine if I can find 4 or 5 packages that didn't work right, then someone using SuSE all day everyday would probably find a lot more (i.e. like the Netscape bug).
-Tim
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Timothy, You are correct. I was quite frustrated by the problems with the GUI package managers, but Yast did work. That are quite a few tricks you can do with that chunky old tool. Part of the reason the package managers were overlooked is that Linux old-timers look at things like these as wrappers around the important stuff. They most likely don't use them. What I believe has happened with 6.4 is that the tools that are most accessible to the inexperienced user were the ones which were broken. This is unfortunate. It means the new users did not have a good experience. :-( Not good for SuSE. I will say I saw patches go out as soon as people posted reports of their problems. When I look at the scope of their undertaking, the SuSE folks do a job which I must say I would be hard pressed to equal. On a personal note. You said something about the German people that was less that generous. Last year I went to visit my brother in Cincinnati. He took me out to see two very old stone Churches in Northern Ky. At the first church he pointed out certain trade marks of the stone work. He told me my grandmother's grandfather built the church. It was some kind of non-denominational Protestant church. Then my brother took me to the other church. He showed me the same trade marks in the stone work. Above the entrance of the church, barely legible, were the words "Deutsche Roemische Katholische Kirche". (please forgive my spelling) Then he took me down through a very old, and still well maintained, graveyard, down the hill, and through the gate to the part the the graveyard where the buried the "other" folks. All the crumbling gravestones are inscribed in German. That's were they buried my grandmother's grandfather. I've never been a Christian, but I have read the Bible. Grandma taught me something she called the "Golden Rule" - "Do unto others as you would have others do unto you." Steve -- For a look at the future click below: http://www.suse.com || http://www.linuxbase.org http://www.kde.org || http://samba.anu.edu.au http://www.winehq.com || http://www.mozilla.org -- 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