2009/11/16 Joe 'Zonker' Brockmeier
On Mon, Nov 16, 2009 at 1:36 PM, dale ritchey
wrote:
What I,m trying to say does this guy even know how to operate a compue
I assume you're using the term "guy" inclusively, as I believe the author is a woman. Judging by her bio, I'd say she probably does know "how to operate a compue" and even a computer too! http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/au/2654
The reviewer also knew significant info, which if it had been posted on forum, would probably have meant she received a workround fairly rapidly.
When working with press and reviewers, I would recommend assuming that just because they have a bad experience with the software does not indicate that the reviewer is less competent. Some of the dings in the review seem a bit unfair, but this is exactly the sort of experience some users will run into (apparently) and attributing that only to the competence of the reviewer is a very bad idea.
C. was comparing an HP Mini 110, which was pre-sold with Ubuntu (Netbook Remix I think) and has Tier 1 support according to Cannonical. It includes the Broadcom wireless driver, and she experienced problems in other Linux with it causing conflicts. That Liive CD doesn't support (at least it didn't in 11.1 brokenmodules=X boot parameter) means it is harder to work round any issues. It is true that the Wiki was down on release day, the en.software.openuse.org URL's weren't working. I have noticed that there are dead links on the Novell site to, in the FAQ (even a reference to upgrading if system older than SuSE Linux 8.2), and also in the Docs section. I found a tool called "checkbot" in the distro, could somoeone's Webmaster run it, so the hardwork put into the OS isn't let down by more nits than necessary. Rob -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-project+help@opensuse.org