On 07/30/2017 03:02 PM, Xen wrote:
But I notice that the underbelly is rumbling and maybe we ate something wrong.
Don't worry, it's just my wife's cooking -- you will live, I'm proof...
That's all I wanted to say: I am a bit shocked by the kinds of troubleshooting that comes by.
That's all.
See you.
Don't go too far. The rumblings are largely due to the growing diversity in hardware, and the fact that hardware manfs don't pre-ship new offering to kernel.org and each distro for testing before release (they do for M$ to make sure they there are no problems) leave Linux playing catchup. Even if they did, the payroll for distro employees to test and tweak the kernel for each new chip is basically Zero. We have eaten bad things lately. We took what was rock solid and easily maintained a decade ago and decided, let's just throw it all away and completely rewrite the init system and while we are at it, let's just rewrite all the major desktops from scratch built on top of new gui toolkits. What could possibly go wrong? Then we decided to allow roughly four competing rewrite of code to establish and maintain network connectivity. The top two round winners have been shoehorned into the square peg setup tools we have always used. I've been quite lucky, while I've had a few squawks, I've done this long enough I can use the command line to setup all the wired and wireless connection I need so they come back each time I boot. If you are on an ultra new network chipset with driver issues, I can see where this could be frustrating. The rescue disk is basically the same. There are plenty of .iso(s) out there that provide the necessary tools needed to do disk recovery or chroot your system to breath life back into it. I haven't tried the 42.2 rescue, but I've always found the normal tools there. Hopefully we are done with the mindless "throw the baby out with the bathwater" mindset and don't completely switch gears simply because someone dangles a bright-shiny new piece of software in front of our face and promises it will solve all your problem. Those promises are rarely true. Just ask the US what it thinks of its new shiny president.... -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org