On Thu, 2005-05-05 at 14:58 +0100, Ben Higginbottom wrote:
On 5/5/05, Preston Crawford
wrote: It's not a threat. If people take it that way, then that's them.
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Preston you've been doing the chickenlittle routine for years, every new release you complain about how bad it is and say your switching. When SCO started making noises you said it looked like it was time to switch to the HURD, and IIRC the Novell buyout you never shut up about how it was the end of days.
You're right. I have been chicken little many times over the years. Mostly because I love Linux and I really love SuSE. And when it appears either may be in danger I will be the first to admit that I overreact (although I don't recall ever *seriously* considering the HURD). It's not because I'm a troll, hate SuSE, or can't admin a Linux distro, though. It's because I want SuSE to continue to survive as a high quality, well thought-out and supported (update-wise) distro. I know there are hiccups. I deal with probably 10 times more hiccups than I talk about, even though it may not seem like that. I roll with them, though. I make backups, I continue to use SuSE. Life goes on. I only pop up when something major breaks or when something major happens (like SCO). Once again, I didn't think there was anything wrong with worrying about/caring about the state of the SuSE. I now know in the future never to bring this up. I've been told by a vocal number of you that this is just not welcome here. Message received. I won't stop trying to solve the individual problems that crop up. I'll keep my comments about switching to myself. And if one day the problems make the $90 every 6 months not worth it I'll just walk away (for another distro, not an abacus). I've always thought this was a place where we, as a community, could discuss the direction the distribution was headed. I'm sorry I got this wrong. Preston