On 09/20/2017 07:13 AM, Anton Aylward wrote:
Ah yes, I used mandrake for a while, then saw their financial tottering so moved and rapidly converged on openSuse.
That is just funny. My last Mandrake was 7.2 in ? 2002? when their financial tottering showed in painful detail how $ can cause a distro to implode.
I admit that I have been more comfortable with opensuse than I was with mandrake ... until now.
For all that have been around long enough to know SuSE, the deal with the devil and then openSuSE, you know that the distro has run itself into the ditch several times, but always has a friend with a tow-strap that manages to pull it out and get them going down the straight and narrow again. You also know that decisions made by the distro are not always based on what is technically sound and best for the end-user of openSuSE. Recall the KDE 4.0.4 'release' with openSuSE 11.0? At that time, it was made clear to the user-base that for openSuSE we are here as the testbed for their commercial products and that decisions for the distribution are made with that in mind, not necessarily with what is best for the user-base or openSuSE end-user. Some decisions are just down right political and are obviously the made by one individual in the position to make the decision, without regard for the consequences on the community. You generally can smell those decisions from quite some distance away, as the logical cost-benefit, or cost to openSuSE to continue whatever feature is on the chopping block is trivial and cannot be argued with a straight-face as the reason for the decision. Take the current discussion regarding dropping ReiserFS. How does that come out on the cost-benefit analysis, or what is the cost to openSuSE to continue providing the simple kernel modules for the filesystem? I still have machines with Reiser, others do. It costs nothing to continue to provide the filesystem. So this seems like one of those decisions that may have a political twang to it, and it was definitely noticeable from quite some distance away. It doesn't appear justified on a technical basis, or at least there has been no offering of a technical justification. So, if Reiser is dropped, this looks like one of those decisions where the effected users are being asked to take it in-the-short,.. after all, we are nothing but a testbed for somebody else's commercial product. -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org