Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (3349 mails)

[Randall R Schulz <rschulz@xxxxxxxxx>]

James,

On Thursday 19 May 2005 10:15, James D. Parra wrote:
> >Go back and read his question. He's running on Windows. Why did he
> > even think a SuSE list would have the answer to the question? In
> > this case, there does happen to be considerable overlap, but in
> > general there's a lot of stuff on Cygwin that is strictly a
> > idiosyncratic to that environment. Should we be entertaining all
> > such questions just because the Gnu tools happen to run on both
> > SuSE and Cygwin?
>
> "This is not a SuSE question .. more of a UNIX question.   I have
> encountered a
> output from a ls -l command that i have ever seen before ..."
>
> The question is not a Cygwin specific question and anyone on the this
> list could benefit from the post. This list isn't a forum for solely
> Suse specific questions. Anyone should feel welcome asking a Linux
> question here as with other Linux distribution list.
>
> Besides, you are overlooking the idea of "openness" associated with
> Gnu/Linux and the concept of sharing knowledge. Luckily for the
> poster, there were people on this list who were considerate enough to
> help him out.

Sorry, but that's all wrong. If you take that approach, virtually 
nothing's off-topic. The volume here is more than high enough. That's 
why it's necessary to be very specific about a lists's charter.

This list is about SuSE Linux (in English).

That said, we tolerate quite a bit of latitude as it is, but questions 
about the behavior of programs running on Windows? How does that 
conceivably fit in here? Answer: It doesn't.


> ~James


Randall Schulz