On Sat, Feb 14, 2009 at 12:00 AM, David Haller <opensuse@dhaller.de> wrote:
If you've been using SUSE[0] for 10 years, do you remember early KDE3 versions? Early KDE2 versions? Early KDE1 versions? ALL of them were Krap[tm]. KDE 1.1.2 was the first (and ISTR last) usable KDE1 version. Incidentally, on my old and still main box[3]:
Having used SuSE since v5.3, I'm amazed at how many people act like all those old versions were so bad. I guess it's like now with KDE4. Some people can run and use KDE4 with no issue, while I've had nothing but problems. Maybe I've just switched roles now.
Oh, and concerning "compromised" distributions: remember 6.0 and 6.1? Or 6.3 or 7.0? Can't quite remember the "fuzz" about later 7.x, the 8.x and 9.x series. 9.x had IIRC some quite serious issues. I'd say many of those were at least as "compromised" as any "openSUSE" version thus far. Oh, and yes, 6.2 had some serious flaws, too. I know. I had to fix them on this very same installation. Least of all, the kernel compiled with the Intel-MTRR bugfix, which was falsely activated on Athlons, and thus prevented booting. SuSE very quickly provided a corrected kernel.
Since I didn't have a high speed connection until 2003, I can't say much about the vuls.(yes, not everyone had access to it. I used dialup for about 15 years). I didn't see a point in wasting my dialup time(at 28.8 IF I was lucky) to download all the updates. I'd prefer an unpatched Linux system to a fully patched WinDoze box any day. I do currently have 7.3 installed on a Powerbook G3, and it runs just fine. I was very impressed with how well it runs considering the fact that 11.0 was slow as molassass. However, I don't use too many apps, and I dislike slow stuff like openoffice. I could load my copy of SuSE 5.3 on a Pentium 100(which is what I staretd on with 32MB RAM), and if it had an updated browser, I'd have no problems. I never had a lot of problems with the different KDEs that so many seem to have. However, I used KPersonalizer to turn off all the eye candy, so maybe that's my advantage. Which is also why I've been requesting that they bring it back. Eye candy is something that can make a fast machine a dog. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org