-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA256 On 2015-05-01 15:57, Richard Brown wrote:
On 1 May 2015 at 12:32, Carlos E. R. <> wrote:
I'll make sure the video gets posted here as soon as it can
I just watched it. I was about to post when my laptop crashed. Well, the battery run out. It actually asked for my root password to try hibernate, but I did not notice why and refused. It is a known bug of XFCE, it requests for root password to hibernate, even on emergencies, and it does so behind the screensaver, so you do not see the prompt. Known and reported bug. Not subject for here, though. Well, what was I saying... ah, that I just watched the video. Interesting... I'm still digesting it. I'm not averted to the idea, in principle... I have doubts, though.
There are many more reasons. But I don't see Tumbleweed ever coping with proprietary blubs: moving target. The proprietary blubs always lag behind by several months.
Sad but true, but I also think people would do well to re-evaluate whether they really need the proprietary blobs - the open source drivers are getting better, and are a good choice for many people now.
For many, true, but not for all. If it is about video drivers, the open source drivers will always lag in features compared to the closed source drivers, and these are behind the Windows counterparts (I'm thinking of Nvidia). The hardware companies will see to it that the open drivers have a hard time and never fully catch up. In many cases, the open source driver suffices, but not always. And then there are other proprietary blobs with no alternative at all. The obvious case is virtualbox or vmware, but there are more. Some printers, for instance. Or proprietary suites. They can target SLES, but not Tumbleweed. A stable openSUSE release has a chance. And after your proposal, chances are better. By the way, talking of stable... Stability is not only about not crashing. It is also not having to "touch" the installation often: just install once, then use the computer for many months, with patches, yes, but without having to configure again services, reading manuals because something changed (with the new version), etc. Which is kind of the meaning of "static". We want stability in order to work with the computer, not for the computer ;-) - -- Cheers / Saludos, Carlos E. R. (from 13.1 x86_64 "Bottle" (Minas Tirith)) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.22 (GNU/Linux) iF4EAREIAAYFAlVEJgYACgkQja8UbcUWM1y1QAD/ekCVwREtz2ve+s0PhVaknHV0 6AQA+L2UAjDOkDKlcJgA/iurQ6n6RpT98DzXDn4fYXo6Ms356rNb5RbQWIAFcwca =SIpK -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, email: opensuse-project+owner@opensuse.org