Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (1696 mails)

[Adam Tauno Williams <awilliam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> > 4. Switching from 10.3 to 11.1. Forget it I tried it and had to back down.
> > It's riddled with bugs or options with are set up by default and all amount
> > to a terrible mess. As a newbie I have managed for years to get going easily
> > enough with regular openSuse updates and always set up my system, comm line,
> > printer etc. single handed.
> The thing is, if there is a bug that impedes your machine from shutting 
> down, it will never be solved for 10.3. Your reports will be ignored... 
> that's life.

Also, if you are using a 'new' PC it is just likely that your hardware
is newer than your OS, so some things not working is just to be
expected.

> Then, that bug/problem might have been solved already on a later version. 
> There is also 11.0, if you don't like 11.1. Or you may try "factory", and 
> if it doesn't work, report your problems so that the comming 11.2 version 
> is corrected in time.
> > Now why do I buck ? You see with the 11.1 mess I decided to now understand

Because it doesn't install/run will on your particular hardware does not
equate to it being a "mess".  It just means it [maybe] doesn't run well
on your particular hardware.  I've done a lot of 11.1 installs and
encountered only one box were it bombed.

> > what's Linux all about. I bought myself a combo course with cbt nuggets. It
> > shipped:
> > 1. Linux can't read the DVD's
> What error?

Playing DVDs works fine for me.  To play 'video' DVDs you need to
install the proprietary codecs <http://software.opensuse.org/codecs>.
But that is true of any version of any distribution - it is just part of
life on LINUX.  One-click install on openSUSE makes it a pretty trivial
issue.

> > 2. Cbt nuggets sent me the file in bits which I stored on my Desktop
> > 3. Cbt nuggets told me to load VLC soft to read this video file.
> You can use mplayer or xine to watch videos - but use the version from 
> packman.

Or totem, which I think is the default on GNOME.  But I have no idea
what "Cbt nuggets" are.

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