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Re: [SLE] goodbye YaST?
- From: Cliff Sarginson <cliff@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 8 Jan 2001 21:33:28 +0100
- Message-id: <20010108213328.A1011@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
On Mon, Jan 08, 2001 at 11:24:37AM -0500, Corvin Russell wrote:
> Servus!
>
> Let me add my voice to the chorus. SuSE, know thyself! YaST2 is only
> one symptom of the new marketing-driven SuSE strategy. I think some
> people at the top of SuSE have been swayed by US market Bolshevism,
> even as the economic weakness of that simplistic, totalizing model is
> now being exposed (and you ain't seen NOTHIN' yet), what to say of its
> spiritual and moral bankruptcy. Stay with your roots, SuSE, which made
> you good.
>
> At the beginning of my linux experience, when I knew nothing about
> linux, I had just tried RedHat before switching to SuSE. It is true
> that at that time I complained to feedback@xxxxxxx that there was no
> linuxconf-type tool in SuSE. I am not even sure that I knew about
> YaST. In any case, SuSE, I utterly retract what I said, and by the
> way you shouldn't listen to the opinions of complete newbies, like
> parents shouldn't, as a rule, take advice from kids when the kids have
> no basis on which to have an opinion (another regrettable fashion).
>
> Personally, I am going to wait for 7.1. We'll see how that goes. If
> it is even more vitiated by a marketing ethos, less quality-driven,
> less honest, then I will upgrade to Debian.
I agree with this sentiment, and is the course of action I am
conetemplating myself.
> Better to vote with our
> feet now, when there is a chance to change things. Too many companies
> take their established customer base for granted when trying to grab
> new customers. But it's really quite easy to switch to a new
> distribution.
>
>
> Corvin
>
> --
> Corvin Russell <corvinr@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
>
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>
> Servus!
>
> Let me add my voice to the chorus. SuSE, know thyself! YaST2 is only
> one symptom of the new marketing-driven SuSE strategy. I think some
> people at the top of SuSE have been swayed by US market Bolshevism,
> even as the economic weakness of that simplistic, totalizing model is
> now being exposed (and you ain't seen NOTHIN' yet), what to say of its
> spiritual and moral bankruptcy. Stay with your roots, SuSE, which made
> you good.
>
> At the beginning of my linux experience, when I knew nothing about
> linux, I had just tried RedHat before switching to SuSE. It is true
> that at that time I complained to feedback@xxxxxxx that there was no
> linuxconf-type tool in SuSE. I am not even sure that I knew about
> YaST. In any case, SuSE, I utterly retract what I said, and by the
> way you shouldn't listen to the opinions of complete newbies, like
> parents shouldn't, as a rule, take advice from kids when the kids have
> no basis on which to have an opinion (another regrettable fashion).
>
> Personally, I am going to wait for 7.1. We'll see how that goes. If
> it is even more vitiated by a marketing ethos, less quality-driven,
> less honest, then I will upgrade to Debian.
I agree with this sentiment, and is the course of action I am
conetemplating myself.
> Better to vote with our
> feet now, when there is a chance to change things. Too many companies
> take their established customer base for granted when trying to grab
> new customers. But it's really quite easy to switch to a new
> distribution.
>
>
> Corvin
>
> --
> Corvin Russell <corvinr@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
>
> --
> To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxx
> For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@xxxxxxxx
> Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/support/faq
>
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