On April 28, 2005 10:32 am, jfweber@bellsouth.net wrote:
On April Thursday 2005 9:55 am, Colin Carter wrote:
On Thursday 28 April 2005 15:43, JD. Brown wrote:
An interesting article about v9.3 to be found at www.theinquirer.net. The article is titled, "SuSE 9.3 fails home-use test".
Interesting I spent the past weekend setting up a triple boot machine and it took 9 tries before I gave up and let XP have the first partition. The SuSE and ubuntu installs went where I wanted them. "In Windows if you want to download and install a program you go to a site, download it and Windows, or the software will install it for you." Windows has a site that updates the OS, another for Office, another for the anit-spyware, another for the Browser, then you have to get your anti-virus from somewhere "Not so with Suse. You download a program, extract it yourself and, if you are lucky, you can then use something called Yast to do it all for you. " Apt-get takes care of the whole thing one site no mess no fuss "And don't bother trying to look at the installation read-me notes either. They are just advertisements for the idiots who designed the software" I couldn't even find any readme notes for XP, and a call the the help desk took hours before there was an answer. I work at one of the call-centers that support XP and I couldn't find an answer. And if I wanted to contact the author of the programs they are too embarrassed to put their name on it. "Nothing happened. Yast told me Beagle was installed, but there were no icons, nothing in the tool bar and nothing downloaded where I could access it." I just installed a few games on the XP machine and guess what, no icons either. "But anyone who wants to upgrade software, install stuff which is not on the disk, let alone play games is going to be frustrated." If they try and do this with XP the BSA may kick down their door and confiscate their equipment As a support tech I love XP because the average users can't. I get calls because the security center conflicts with the email or school login, because users can't figure out how to install software, or because they did install software and it turned out to be a Trojan. Had a call the other day that while downloading the service packs the machine had become so infested that we had to reformat the machine again. -- Collector of vintage computers http://www.ncf.ca/~ba600 Machines to trade http://www.ncf.ca/~ba600/trade.html Open Source Weekend http://www.osw.ca