On 18 June 08, Larry Stotler wrote:
On Wed, Jun 18, 2008 at 6:49 PM, Brian K. White
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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.
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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.
Notice the other elitists of the list don't tell Brian to shut-up? Or how no one else steps in and agrees that it *IS* the same mentality as M$ users have and abuse? This list has gone to hell in a handbasket and it's actually quite amusing to watch them keep strangling themselves and fuming at those of us who point our the truth to them. By the way, you should take a look at Yoper if you're interested in trying another distro. -- "Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety." Benjamin Franklin -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org