On 19/07/10 20:56, Roman Bysh wrote:
On 07/19/2010 03:52 PM, Jakub Rusinek wrote:
Dnia 19-07-2010 o 21:40:26 Linux_Sle
napisał(a): On 19/07/10 20:28, Roman Bysh wrote:
Hi all,
It used to be standard practice to have Nvidia rpms ready for the release of a new openSUSE distro.
Who missed the memo for openSUSE 11.3?
Cheers!
Roman The nvidia rpms provided have not worked reliably in the past in my experience. Downloading and manually installing nvidia driver is a better option.
Sudhir Sadly, I need to confirm it. After, 11.1 I guess, was released, I installed fresh SUSE and decided to install RPMs as I used to before, but they didn't work. I had to download the driver tarball and compile on my own. Then it started working. I don't trust their packages.
Now I've migrated to ATI, but still have to compile on my own, as ATI fails to provide packages... It's not good to rely on hardware manufacturer...
Will this be the official decision from the top? How are distros dealing with this? And, how are we to draw new users to openSUSE with such views?
Roman The problem lies with the sheer number of Linux distributions, each with its own manner of managing software updates and system configuration. I have been using SuSE/openSuSE for the last 12 years and have got used to its way of doing software management. Having tried Fedora and Mandriva recently, it was difficult to configure these systems as they are very different from openSuSE.
Users have a vast number of distributions to choose from. Until Linux distributions have a common software management, updates and hardware configuration, things will not get better. Sudhir -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help@opensuse.org