On Saturday 22 August 2009 07:18:04 am Basil Chupin wrote:
Putting about an alpha which cannot even be booted to see what the (alpha) OS looks like is a total and an utter waste of everyone's time and effort -- and money because downloads cost money.
The problem is that somewhere with some (most probably newer) hardware it worked before it was uploaded, or released for publishing, but the time when Novell sunk money for various hardware and paid people to test it, is gone. Currently the only safe way to have running openSUSE is to buy the same hardware release manager has :-) For the rest of us the only way is to get used to collect data and file bug reports. That will help ourselves, and other with similar machines. Of course openSUSE with more then 10 people paid to work on it full time, should soon see improved data collection techniques, suitable for lesser skilled computer operators willing to take their part in opensource development. -- Regards, Rajko http://news.opensuse.org/category/people-of-opensuse/ -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org