In the past 24 hours with my x86-64 10.2 I had a kooka freeze-up, a vmware freeze-up, a video dvd playing freeze-up, about 6 or 7 firefox freeze-ups, access to a windoze computer shared folder freeze-up, about 3 konq freeze-ups, need alsaconf almost every time a "new" application requests sound, always have to reset volume down from max and so on... it is windoze95 all over again!!!!! I know, "there is something seriously wrong with my system", I will adress that, also I know that individual apps are not a SuSE problem, however: 1. the same does *not* happen with older versions of SuSE in the very same hardware (ok, it's on a different partition, but that;s the only diff). 2. The installation is a standard SuSE installation, with the additon of kernel sources (for vmware compilation) and multimedia from packman and the removal of beagle. 3. This is the only SuSE system besides 10.1 where a reboot "makes things ok for a while, then shtuff lapses into an almost predictable pattern of problems". 10.1 is guilty too, but does the dirty deed with much less frequency. 4. I am fully aware that vista is not the solution to my problems and i can not accept xp as my os of choice despite it's remarkable maturity. so i plead to all who have a say on what actually comes out as "working software": 1. STABILITY is more important than features. 2. It is WRONG to rely on the speed of new hardware to make up for bad programming. It is absolutely ridiculous that the word processors of today take gigabytes of space and googles of cpu cycles just to load a plain document template. Yes, there is nothing wrong with using "standardized" software blocks for "standardized" operations in a program, but this has been abused to the max and it is perhaps the most important reason that almost every package is a rube goldberg of bits of this and parts of that, all spread out over a few dozen libs and scripts, all loaded with useless baggage... 3. simple is ok. thanks, d. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org