Peter Nikolic <p.nikolic1@btinternet.com> writes:
I have used Opensuse now for some years since the days of 5.3 in fact and Linux in general well before that since the days of the Early 0.9 kernels all floppy distro no X i also ran Slackware and Red Hat and tested a few more along the way so i know a thing or two about Linux i have even brewed up my own distro at one time .
I changed from a dual boot system to Linux exclusively in 1995. I have used Slackware, Redhat (until it got really buggu and earned the nickname of "Bughat") and finally settled on SuSE. I have also experimented with other distros such as Ubuntu. As much as I agree with some of your points, I think singling out OpenSUSE is unfair.
The sound system is a total mess this pulseaudio thing is what nothing more than a total blight on the system there needs to be a choice for users risk pulseaudio
Yes, Pulseaudio is a piece of crap. However, it is the default on not only OpenSUSE, but on all major distro these days- Ubuntu, Fedora, etc. It is the default sound server for Gnome (replacing esd). I personally just use ALSA (no dmix, I have a multi-channeled card).
Beagle ! what a total pain and complete resource hog once again it needs to be a LOT easier to un-install or not install at all With the requisite warning for those that do install it beware it will hog your CPU for excessive amounts of time ,
Another program I detest. However, you can not fault OpenSUSE only again, since this is part of a default a Gnome installation.
Likewise Nepomuk .
This is a symptom of "keep up with the Jones". Ever since Apple's Spotlight, every OS seem to have an indexer enabled by default.
Then we have this whole License thing about codecs and DVD playing software things like DHT as well , People purchase a distro and rightfully so expect to be able to install it bang in a DVD and have it play not go faffing around having to instantly pollute a new install with essentially foreign packages not everyone has a good enough Internet connection to do that any way , maybe it is time for Opensuse to find a new home where German licensing rules don't apply .
Huh, this had nothing to do with German Licensing rules. Dvdcss is illegal in all countries that have ratified WIPO's "Copyright and Performances and Phonograms Treaties Implementation Act": http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WIPO_Copyright_and_Performances_and_Phonograms_... Also for legal dvd playback, one must have a mpeg2 license and a mpeg4 license for BlueRay and HD-DVD. For legal mp3 encoding and playback one must pay royalties through Thomson to obtain a license., Here are the rates: http://mp3licensing.com/royalty/ or else one will be infringing on this list of patents: http://mp3licensing.com/patents/index.html Some project (IIRC is was the Blade encoder) got shutdown because of this. LAME gets around it by only offering source code only on their site and bill it as for educational use. The only free legal mp3 decoder for Linux is Fluendo: http://www.fluendo.com/shop/product/fluendo-mp3-decoder/ This is because the company have paid for a license. This is done as a PR move to sell their other products: http://www.fluendo.com/shop/category/end-user-products/ For legal mpeg2/4 video encoding and playback, one must pay royalties through the mpeg-la: http://www.mpegla.com/m2/index.cfm OpenSUSE is not the only one doing this, all Linux distros do not include patent encumbered codecs by default. Also, since when do you pay for OpenSUSE? Charles -- "The world is beating a path to our door" -- Bruce Perens, (Open Sources, 1999 O'Reilly and Associates)