Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (3073 mails)

[Wolfgang Woehl <tito@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Samstag, 5. Januar 2008 Tom Patton:

> I do not see this as a major issue, or one that fuels the MS war.

People who cannot fiddle around in root shells will definitely get the 
impression of a major issue going down when their supported and functional tv 
card stops working after an online update.

Is it really that hard to understand what advice like "Oh, just open a 
terminal, become root, edit out some lines from /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist and 
reload a kernel module" does to ordinary people?

> I'm 
> reasonably certain that the root cause will eventually be resolved, and
> THEY will remove the black-list sheriff ANYWAY.

They will probably not because there are loads of devices that need to be 
blacklisted, potentially. 

> Imagine the odds of even BEING ABLE TO WORK_AROUND in a MS system!!!
> Good luck with THAT chore, sir.  I'm sure this WOULD have been a windoz
> show-stopper, with the only hope to wait 6 months for an update!!!  Give
> me SuSE ANY DAY!

3 months and counting ...
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=330109

The ubiquitous notion of linux geeks that their distributions are superior to 
any other commercial OS would gain some decent weight through serious 
bug-squashing. Mindlessly repeating it over and over does not make it any 
truer. It just makes us a laughing stock really.

Wolfgang
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