Steve, On Tuesday 31 May 2005 08:54, Steve Kratz wrote:
because of SuSE's silly dual-layer DVDs. The webserver's a tiny 1U rackmount, and has a laptop DVD drive in it. Of course, it's one of the ones that won't read DL discs.
ie. it is broken.
Blaming SuSE for having faulty hardware doesn't seem that sensible to me.
mfg Nik
The hardware isn't faulty - Distributing Linux on a media set that requires brand new hardware is a little bit of a flakey idea, in my opinion.
Check out the other thread where this issue has been run into the ground. The hardware most certainly is not compliant with the DVD standard and the vendor of that hardware has had the better part of a decade to get it right.
Is there really any huge reason to not have a 32-bit DVD and a 64-bit DVD like 99% of the other major distros? All it is, IMO is an inconvenience.
If you want things the way they are in other releases, then why don't you use other releases? Novell / SuSE made business decisions about how to package their released based on their perception and evaluation of the relevant business considerations. Let them know you don't agree. Randall Schulz