On Thu, 2005-01-27 at 12:45, Jack wrote:
On Thu, 2005-01-27 at 15:27 +0530, rada and gus wrote:
I'm not saying this is always the case, but it seems most often when people on this list have had problems with 9.2 it has been related to some hardware issue. Just my opinion. Gustav Degreef.
Agreed. I think that could be a large part of the problem. Of course, most of the people on this list have probably forgotten more than I know. That being said, I've been with SuSE since 9.0 and I think each distro is better than the next. 9.2 works great and is the best yet.
Just my 2 cents.
Jack
Hi Jack, You wrote "I think each distro is better than the next." I presume, you mean "each new release is better than the previous one". ;-) Besides that, hardware was, is, and probably remain the biggest problem. As long as manufacturers refuse to provide specs, no drivers can be written. (if they don't provide them themselves) Just as example, ATI (and clones) producing for years and years nice grapics boards using Rage200 and Rage300 chip-set, but the people from the Gatos-team were not able to write anything because of lack of documentation. Same for pci-dsl-modem boards. Compared with ten years ago, the situation is getting much better. Rough estimation would be that (except for bleeding edge technology) about 80% is supported. In the bad old days of kernel 1.0 that was the other way round: 20% supported. It's getting better as time goes by. But it is something that Suse can do little about it, i'm afraid.... Hans