On Mon, 8 Jan 2001 22:56:24 -0600 Gary <medmanks@mindspring.com> got it together enough to write:
Hi Samy, I noticed that another distro (Mandrake) has now standardized on CUPS to handle their printer stuff in Linux. I have seen this being used and it works well with many different printers. I think that SuSE could have offered it in this newest distro version as well.
Seen how much they want to charge for the full version? Certain people are whinging about the price as it is, let alone if they added THAT overhead!?
I think that SuSE is superbly engineered and extremely fast, as compared to most distros. What I feel is lacking is that when a new version comes out, its seems to be still behind in the latest technology as compared with the other distros. For example, others have put in KDE2 as standard default in their distro, others have had the LILO without the 1024 cylinder limitation out long before SuSE, others have had CUPS out now in the distro, etc. I bring this up in a constructive manner to express what competition is doing in their latest distros.
Go look at the other distros mailing lists. As far as KDE2 goes, the problems people are having are simply enormous, (this list gets enough of them as well). AFAIK SuSE are aiming at the business end of the market. They would rather release with a slightly older, but proven (or at least, known) version of something, than risk their customers losing business because some 'bleeding edge' app failed to work as planned. As far as support for hardware goes, there is no point bleating about it here - do what I do, get onto the maker of the hardware. Ask them if they would like to increase sales by 10% or better. Then tell them the easiest way to do this is to release the control codes for their hardware to the Linux community. Unless they do this, we cannot use their product. -- This Email is 100% Virus Free! How do I know? Because no Microsoft products were used to generate it! Regards Don Hansford ECKYTECH COMPUTING/ SQIT Warwick <SuSE Linux 6.4> "We're tired, we're wired, and our breath smells bad -- -But at least our Operating System doesn't suck!"