On 14/08/2010 18:22, David C. Rankin wrote:
On 08/13/2010 09:38 AM, Radule Šoškić wrote:
Best regards,
~rms~
I do remember you on the list in the 9.0 days. Specifically the ~rms~ signature. And brother, you hit the nail on the head. I too have watched the slow decline in the stability, quality and useability of Linux over the past 2.5-3 years in particular and like you, it saddens me. Currently with 11.3 my trusty old laptop hardlocks so frequently (every 5-10 minutes) that it is unusable with 11.3 and I basically just ssh into it to troubleshoot now -- much less actually use it.
This is the same laptop that runs 10.2, 10.3, 11.0, 11.1 and 11.2 and Arch Linux without any problems at all -- sigh.. I sure wish I didn't agree with all you said, but unfortunately, I do.
Today, it isn't so much whether openSuSE works anymore or whether it is stable, it's not about that anymore. It is now about whether SLES and SLED will be stable 9 months from now running on the same software we are kindly beta testing for Novell. As for KDE4, it is sad. I had just written another article on it to a friend and I had decided not to post it to the list. But, after seeing that you had the courage to help the developers see the ugly truth of what has become of kde, then I should have no less in trying to help the FOSS community not lose site of what really matters to Linux users. So I will share my post of earlier tonight:
(coincidentally, I had saved the file as 'prideGoesBeforeAFall.txt')
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When I read your post, I was stunned at the familiar and uncanny ring it had to it. I had just written the post above not 40 minutes earlier. Perhaps through your courage, the developers and Novell will sit in quite reflection and think about where the rock-solid stability, performance and open-source hallmarks of efficient have gone.
David, I can just see "way out there, in those yonder hills!" pigs starting to grow wings, and before you know it - they will be flying! Real soon now - I am certain of it! Novell is looking for a buyer - so it's not really interested in any "quiet reflection" to think about "..open-source hallmarks...". It's all about $$$$$$ now. As far as the developers......well even Edison had a dream. Didn't quite work out at first, but he finally got there.....
From the Linux users standpoint, all the glitz, glamor, and eye-candy in the world is worth a thing if it doesn't work or if it wears your fingers and hands out to do it.
(I suspect that there is a typo in the above.... :-) ) To you, to me, to many people, this is the case. But there are many, many more who are attracted by flashing neon signs, screaming voices in a TV ad. telling you that you just simply *MUST* buy now while the offer lasts otherwise you end up with your little ass in hell for all eternity, and so on and etc, etc, etc...... If one accepts that KDE4 is not to your liking, and never will be because the devs took off on the project while imbibing unspecified "medications", or forgot to have a haircut, and that KDE3 is the best but, unfortunately it is dead in the water and will be so forever and a day unless its base is brought back to life (ie, QT3), then the only sensible thing to do is to move on...and use another DE. Would you agree with this or not? BC -- Don't resent getting old - a great many are denied the privelege. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org