Tom Allison wrote:
Please fix this.
This shows that you do not have that much experience with computers and software, otherwise you would not ask for this in a mailinglist and without giving anymore details.
I will resist the temptation to flame you here. Seven years on Linux and 25 years with computers might make me somewhat qualified to have at least a rudimentary level of experience with computers.
Ah, yeah seven years of experience and then a comment to a non-devel mailinglist like "please fix this"? Either you are experienced, then one can expect that you do not blame Yast for your display problems, which you did by not stating that the instability of the GUI was due to your hardware and not Suse, and do not request a fix from this mailing-list, or you do not have experience, well then at least your post would be on the right level. Anyway, I am going off topic and that's not a good thing, so I am leaving this thread here. Sven
You're not getting off that easy!!! :) I will try the boot.iso on another machine today and will be looking for a repeat of this floppy IO problem. If it fails, then I will pull the floppy device and see what that does. I haven't had to do that in the past so it seems slightly unorthodox. Not wrong, just unorthodox. With regard to the GUI problem: I am essentially at the point where if I can get the installation to pass, and have a stable OS as the result, then who cares if I have to practice Trancendental Mediation or some other oddities for my stupid mouse? My remarks should go to the Feedback.cgi, and they will when I can get the details necessary. But past experiences has revealed that sometimes installation feedback on a mailing list has two effects: It helps someone else who is experiencing the same problem. Or it presents the developers with a potential bug. However, you implicate the Suse mailing list doesn't work that way. Unlike Debian and Gentoo, you imply that the user mailing list does not gaurantee the presence of the developers as well. True/False? You accused me of attempting to market another OS. Not true. But I am coming from a group of Linux distributions which seem to be different enough in their social and code structure as to present me as something akin to a clueless newbie. Imagine how someone from Linux From Scratch would look at Suse? It would certainly be different, though the inner workings are the same.