Clayton wrote: [pruned]
To me a beta is something which should only contain the most hidden bugs. All bugs like the ones mentioned in the Annoying Bugs should NOT be there but should have been picked up by alpha 3 at least.
Yah true, but the install base on the Alpha versions is a LOT smaller than on the Beta. Plus loads of people are installing Alpha in a VM... so real world testing on the menagerie of computers out there doesn't actually start happening until it's released on us unwashed masses.
You don't need to be a George W Bush to burn a few copies of the CDs, take them home and hand one set to the kids and another/the others to the neighbour(')s(') kids and tell them to try and install the latest and greatest new version of Suse which is about to be foisted on the great unwashed who will spend time (and money) downloading the thing and becoming guinea pigs to be "gotcha"-ed by the little hidden "treasures" inside the OS. As it now stands, I have a copy and you have a copy which cannot be fixed by any patch to be issued as a fix because there is no upgrade/fixing mechanism available. (Were have I seen this before, hm?) I tried installing the version of smart which is on the Suse site but it collapses with a dependency error showing that version <2.9 of something (??glib--can't recall at the moment) is needed. I am going to try and install a copy of smart put together by Pascal Bleser and see what this produces. Cheers. -- I'm dangerous when I know what I'm doing.