Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (1639 mails)

["Fred A. Miller" <fmiller@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Ken Schneider - openSUSE wrote:
> Fred A. Miller pecked at the keyboard and wrote:
> > Felix Miata wrote:
> > > On 2009/02/28 19:20 (GMT-0500) Fred A. Miller composed:
> > >
> > > > What really needs to be known, is "what" are other distos. who have
> > > > gained market share doing that Novell isn't? openSUSE IS a better
> > > > distro., but somehow "something" isn't being done to gain the market
> > > > share that it should have.
> > > Ubuntu is available on a single CD, which they will provide gratis to anyone
> > > who bothers to ask for one. OpenSUSE must be purchased, or a big DVD iso
> > > downloaded (if you don't know how to how to use a NET CD to start an http
> > > install).
> > 'Has to be more than just a free CD. ;) Maybe it's "dependency hell"
> > that we
> > keep having. I've not used KUbuntu that long to know....the short time I
> > tried it,
> > I didn't have any dependency issues on updates. I have an idea you know
> > more about that than I do.
> >
> > Fred
>
> You seem to be one of the few that constantly has "dependency hell". If 
> you are using other then the repos configured at install time by default
> you bring this on yourself.
>
> You constantly bitch about KDE 4.x not being ready but continue to use it 
> when 3.x is still available and stable. 

We're all going to be forced, soon, to move to 4.*, so I'm trying to use
it. Factory repositories SHOULDN'T give us dependency grief.

> I don't think you have as much choice with *buntu either.

No, you don't. :(

Fred

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