On Jun 6, 2006, at 9:43 AM, Basil Chupin wrote:
No, I would not rather be working on Windows. But I am afraid that I, and many others, are, unfortunately, forced to continue to work on Windows because something like SuSE - which I thought was finally "getting there" after many years - just doesn't cut the mustard. After trying out almost all the distros on the market I settled on SuSE which I considered had a future and had the ability to match the popularity of Windows. Until recently that is. Now it is just another floundering piece of software bobbing around in the pond, and a small one at that, without a solid and sensible captain at the helm to take it to port. All it has are little gnomes running around counting beans in their little mugs.
I DON'T want to be working on Windows. But I have to. And this is what is making me so damn frustrated and making me angry. I thought that SuSE was what was going to get me out of the Windows mire - but I was wrong.
Regrettably I also have a personality which attracts me to lost causes. So I will persevere with SuSE for the time being - until the time Novell gets itself into such a mess that it will become a target (if it isn't already) for M$ to buy it out and then SuSE will disappear. At which point, like Don Quixote, I'll start looking for a new windmill to play with.
So who is telling you that you _must_ run the latest version? The OS is just a tool. Use the tool that works the best for you. Have you looked at 10.0? How about 9.3? I liked the 9.* very much, and for what I'm doing now, 10.0 seems fine. But then, my main DT box now is OSX 10.4.6. We have boxes running mac OS8, OS9. We had Yellowdog version 2.* for years, we just killed the box not too long ago. It was just a file server. We use what ever works- NOT what is trendy. We host on Cobalt RAQ 2 and 3's - Very old. Still gets the job done. All we need now is Quark, Illustrator and Photoshop to run in Linux. (yea, the real photoshop & Ill) Thanks, George