On Wed, Jun 18, 2008 at 6:49 PM, Brian K. White
The resistance has to do with valuing the very efficiency you value.
Unfortunately, I was away when this decision was made because I would have argued against it.
Hows this for a nice attitude? If you want to use ancient hardware, then use ancient software instead of expecting everyone else to go out of their way to make it effortless for you to do something unnecessarily odd and satisfy your >unnecessarily picky wishes.
I'm not in a 1 person minority here. Several have already expressed the need for CDs and several have also agreed that they wish for openSUSE to continue to support their older hardware. If openSUSE is going to list it's requirements as a P-II based system, then that system will likely not have a DVD drive.
It's really quite a simple concept. And you don't have to use software that's nearly as >ancient as the hardware anyways. * you can use 10.3 which is totally current
I've been recommending AGAINST using 10.3 because the installation is horribly SLOW! Not only that, 11.0 is more responsive in many ways overall than 10.3
That's 6 perfectly doable options right off the top of my head. Your complaint lacks substance to engender sympathy.
And that's the same elitest mentality that MS has. Let's FORCE users to upgrade to make use of anything. Why should a program require XP SP2 when 2000 SP4 will run it just fine? It's called forcing out older hardware. If that's openSUSE's new official position, then I will look to support another distro.
What's next? 11.0 requires too much ram for your 64M laptop?
Actually, I run a server with 128MB RAM. When you are running a stripped down system with no X and very few services, you don't need 2GB RAM. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org