On 2/11/07, Brian J Berrigan <bberrign@renc.igs.net> wrote:
Worse still is all the inane replies they incite. Linux is NOT MS, thank heaven, and for most of us it is easy to READ the F_Manuals, then if needed, dig up some HOWTO's and archives or ask intelligent questions of the helpful gurus here. But you just seem to relish the puerile attention you get by messing up installations and then ranting on and on. Guess you know your emails are now blocked here...give me a break...
here is the rub of divergent goals in the linux community. I really have no problem rolling up my sleeves to figure stuff out ... especially when I am doing so to entertain my private desire (and glee in) avoiding M$ payments tripe. However, much of my time working with linux is done with an eye towards helping my customers get off of the M$ bandwagon to the greatest extent possilble. for the most part, they CANNOT do that, when the installation and support issues are as unresolved as they are. I need to be able to help them in a way that will allow them to be comfortable that "they can do it" without having to hire linux admins with 15 years experience. I need to be able to put together installation procedures and hardware support guidlines and etc ... so that they can do this. It is here that I *personally* get frustrated, because of: 1) my own lack of experience and 2) the lack of polish in many basic procedures/processes. Far too much relies on "sweat of the brow" work ... (remember, this is all MY OPINION) Despite the above, I do think it is close ... and I would surely love to find a commuity of SUSE users/admins that want to share ideas/complaints/suggestions for how to make SUSE linux much more popular, and much more likely to actually have a chance of taking some M$ marketshare. This list, unfortunately, is not it. There are many many helpful people on this list ... but for the most part it seems to be folks that relish the current "outsider" quality of linux, and I think generally do not want linux (or, "thier distro perhaps) to penetrate deeply into the corporate desktop and/or home markets. That's fine, I get it. But I want it to grow, and I think lots of others do, too ... and for it to grow it needs more polish. You can say that such criticism is "M$ baiting" or simply an inanity if you want. But, to me ... it is struggling and hoping to one day find linux in the "M$ defeating" camp.
Linux is: Freedom, of choice, from gates & windows, from illegal monopolies.
And I do not think that the above expressed desires are at odds with or wholly incompatible with the realities of free choice and OSS in general. Peter -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org