I don't think she/he was talking to you personally. I think it was 'thread intensive' and was more or less cut and dried 'Don't worry about fluff....just appreciate the good solid stuff that comes with the dist'...in other words Enlightenment, WM, etc are nice to have but are 'cheese and crackers' etc and subsequently unworthy of discussion. I found the mail obnoxious but didn't, like yourself, want to 'flame'. I think the point was in people suggesting some extra stuff they'd like to see in the dist so they don't need to either 1) use more than one dist or 2) spend tons of time building and modifying SuSE to include stuff they'd like to see on the CDs. I don't think anyone was complaining about the quality of SuSE Linux, which we all seem to agree is quite exceptional and the best dist there is. I'm not sure where the idea of 'whining' came from. Sounds like something that could be remedied by hitting the 'think' button before the 'send' button. She said: "You know you aren't a very good singer..." I said: "That's nothing!! You should hear me play piano !!" Morrissey On Thu, 11 Jun 1998, Michael Lankton wrote:
I apologize for my somewhat terse reply re. this thread. Here is my post that was taken by Mckinney as being "whining". I fail to see any whining or dissatisfaction with SuSE in these comments. I stand by these remarks, and I stand by my belief that SuSE linux is the finest quality dist available. I do not wish to engage in any flame wars on this or any other public forum. I was just irritated when I was taken so far out of the context of my intent, and I replied defensively as is human nature.
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