Re: [SLE] The future of SuSE Linux as we know it?
From: Allen <slackwarewolf@comcast.net>
On Tuesday 04 April 2006 11:47 pm, lerninlinux@comcast.net wrote:
It's almost 12 PM here, and I haven't been to bed yet. Time is not a valid source of how tired someone is.
12 PM isn't 12 AM, As I work two jobs, seven days a week, my computer hours vary widely. Lately it's been between 11PM and 3AM, hence all my mistakes.
And doing all that seems pretty stupid, why not use a better mail client? Mutt comes with SUSE.
Webmail, this list and multiple locations and pc's. If I had a laptop, then I could.
As for choice, I don't have a problem with choice, I have a problem with people who think that because SUSE isn't going to take 3 days to install, and then need two security updates a day, and because it uses a GOOD installer and system like YAST that for some reason you'd need another distro to learn "The command line"....
I had one distro, that I liked long ago, go nuts (see sco formerly Caldera, from pentium 1 days), I have received bad disks from magazines, watched companies go bankrupt, had my new installation support, on the licensed machine go ignored, etc. I posted in an earlier post about how I plan on making the floppies, and doing an ftp install, on my new (from parts, with Suse) server system, as I don't want to unscrew a dvd from another machine, and I consider that a good learning experience. But I refuse to just play with one distro. Distro's can disappear, be neglected, go off in a direction I chose not to, eliminate one program that I like from them, for another, etc. I choose to not be distrocentric a long time ago.
On Thursday 06 April 2006 2:19 pm, lerninlinux@comcast.net wrote:
From: Allen <slackwarewolf@comcast.net>
On Tuesday 04 April 2006 11:47 pm, lerninlinux@comcast.net wrote:
It's almost 12 PM here, and I haven't been to bed yet. Time is not a valid source of how tired someone is.
12 PM isn't 12 AM, As I work two jobs, seven days a week, my computer hours vary widely. Lately it's been between 11PM and 3AM, hence all my mistakes.
I know that. I meant it was 12 PM and I was still awake from the day before.
And doing all that seems pretty stupid, why not use a better mail client? Mutt comes with SUSE.
Webmail, this list and multiple locations and pc's. If I had a laptop, then I could.
Mutt works over SSH and Telnet....
As for choice, I don't have a problem with choice, I have a problem with people who think that because SUSE isn't going to take 3 days to install, and then need two security updates a day, and because it uses a GOOD installer and system like YAST that for some reason you'd need another distro to learn "The command line"....
I had one distro, that I liked long ago, go nuts (see sco formerly Caldera, from pentium 1 days), I have received bad disks from magazines, watched companies go bankrupt, had my new installation support, on the licensed machine go ignored, etc. I posted in an earlier post about how I plan on making the floppies, and doing an ftp install, on my new (from parts, with Suse) server system, as I don't want to unscrew a dvd from another machine, and I consider that a good learning experience. But I refuse to just play with one distro. Distro's can disappear, be neglected, go off in a direction I chose not to, eliminate one program that I like from them, for another, etc. I choose to not be distrocentric a long time ago.
Novell has been around about as long as I've been born, they aren't going anywhere. And I've never had one problem with support. They answered my question even though i had NOTHING to do with the install which is all they HAVE to cover and from what I've seen on this list others have said they helped them with more than an install as well.
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