Re: [opensuse] Differences between SUSE Linux 10.0 and OSS 10.0?

But, just b/c OpenSuse is built on OSS shouldn't mean it has to be difficult to install/interoperate with non-OSS software.... or so is my opinion. Gentoo is good at creating a seamless link in portage. I guess what it comes down to is that most users are going to install things like mp3 libraries anyway so why make it difficult when you can create a clear, easy way for them to get access? In my opinion, that's how you grow a community. HG wrote:

Hi!

On 9/25/05, Randall R Schulz wrote:

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Don't get me wrong, I'd love to have a OSS version working. It is kind of sad, that to get the OSS version usable in normal home environment, one must go out and install non OSS software - let's just hope this changes over the time.

I don't see what the alternative is. If there is no open-source software for a given class of application or if the required algorithms are patented, then by definition an pure open-source distribution will omit such applications.

How can it be otherwise?

Like I said, I hope the situation will change so that some day in the future I can get a working system that does the stuff that is generally needed for home computing and consist only of OSS software. Of course, it may be that there is never such time. But I hope otherwise. And I mean this from the task point of view, not algorithms or such.

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So I guess I'll be searching for Novell/SUSE distributor...

What could be worse, eh? You'll have to put some cash into the system that provides the software you want.

The fact that there is none here. Simple as that. (A few €'s for a working system is much less that spending hours and hours with google trying to get the system up and running...)

-- HG.