--- Bruce Marshall
On Friday 12 October 2001 13:34 pm, babu walad wrote:
--- Ole Kofoed Hansen
wrote:
What gives people the idea that they have to buy a new version 4-5 times a year?
Please consider the following points:
1) You don't have to upgrade each time. 2) SuSE only releases approximately 2 versions every year. 3) If you want to upgrade without paying, there is always ftp. Please use a mirror.
The fact is, if things worked fine out of the box, I would absolutely not update except when a major new functionality or feature was added.
Today, I have spent nearly 2 months (part time basis) trying to get 7.1 to work with my PC and I still have critical roblems: 1. No drivers for AMI RAID. There is support for the chipset, but no drivers. 2. My OrangeMicro IEE1394, NEC chipset PCI card is unsupported. 3. Haven't got my ATI TV wonder card working 4. Haven't got my 3DLabs VX1 video card working.
It is not SuSE's job to write drivers for all these (somewhat off-center) cards. If the drivers are available, go get them... if not, wait until someone writes a driver.
I agree it is not Suse's job to write these drivers and get thousands of cards working. The fact remains, however, that a bundling of kernel and drivers, no matter who releases it, does not work out of the box. If any of these "missing" drivers get bundled into a new release, then for someone in my situation, I will bug/install a new release every week if necessary till I have a stable and functional system. After all, a working Linux box is not the end goal but the means to what we really want to do with it. Babu __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Make a great connection at Yahoo! Personals. http://personals.yahoo.com