On Friday 24 Jul 2009 00:54:58 Rajko M. wrote:
While in general offering option to choose what service (that is installed) should run is overkill (why it is installed in a first place?), there should be clear mark for applications in experimental stadium that can create problems, and easy way to avoid them.
Why is it overkill , admitted there are some that need to be there but the rest of them should be open to the users of the system to easily decide yes or no but via an easy method and no matter how many times someone pipes up about how easy it is to do this it is no the interface to this side of the system functionality is poor to say the least (unless you happen to have someones magically simple system that exists no where else)
The example how that can be done is kernel, where you have option to remove all experimental features from the configuration dialog that is presented to you. If you choose to see them, every feature is clearly marked experimental, and you can include one, or more of them, that you have interest in, and skip all other.
The kernel can be classed as a special case and in no way should fall into the methods i am prescribing the kernel takes more knowledge than a lot of current users have and yes we all play at compiling kernels but leave it at that
Major problem with any release up to now was created when someone tried to play mind reader and guess what users want and what not. That was the reason to see new software that has to be tested pushed on new users, that just started to learn how to run Linux, and made things worse.
What i am saying is take the mind readers out of the loop completely let the users decide (with a little guidance it areas of importance) but not the methods that someone on here seems to like it's in live with it , The reason many people come to Linux is simply because it is configurable take this away make too many that's it live with it type decisions and people will walk. New software is very obviously a must all the time that is not under question it is the method that is chosen to introduce this new software that is being called to book it completely lacks any initial R&D or QA and even Alpha should be up to some reasonable standard then on top of that trying to enforce it's use is basically suicide . This all comes full circle to my original post that the quality of recent releases is for want of a better description pants , this is free openn software and someone is trying to play the big corperate BS method of live with it tough and it ain't gunna work . Pete .