Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (5100 mails)

[Riccardo Facchini <abief_ag_-suseml@xxxxxxxxx>]

--- Eugene Lee <__> wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 10, 2004 at 04:06:23AM -0700, Riccardo Facchini wrote:
> : --- Mike McMullin <__> wrote:
> : > On Thu, 2004-06-10 at 05:17, peter Nikolic wrote:
> : > > On Thursday 10 Jun 2004 09:46, Eugene Lee wrote:
> : > > >
> : > > > At this stage, SuSE can NEVER be a home desktop solution. 
> Why?
> : > > > 
> : > > > Because there is no simple control panel to chage
> fundamentally
> : > > > trivial settings like switching duplex of the Ethernet card
> on
> : > > > boot.
> : 
> : Question N? 1: How many times a day do you change switching duplex
> of
> : the ethernet card on boot?
> 
> Never.  However, due to the requirements of datacenter, the machine
> must
> *not* default to slower autonegotiation.  I haven't yet found a way
> via
> YaST to do this.

Maybe I'm missing something.... are we discussing if SuSE 9.1 is a Home
Desktop Solution or a Datacenter class server?

> 
> Also, if the machine is rebooted for some reason, then I would have
> to
> remember to drive to the datacenter, log in, and change the duplex.
> This is extremely stupid and stands against The Unix Way.

I repeat myself:

Maybe I'm missing something.... are we discussing if SuSE 9.1 is a Home
Desktop Solution or a Datacenter class server?


[snip]

regards,



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Riccardo G. Facchini