. After 4 days down, I'm back on 7.3 . 8 is *not* ready. Every weekend has been fully given-over to Suse for months now. I'll bet *they're* not this determined. I've used Linux primarily for 3 years, but this is frightening, by any measure. I must DEPEND on my computer. Looking back, it's traditional to have hundreds of problems with new releases, so I hope 8.1 will be usable. If not, it is the end of Linux and beginning of Mac for me. On Wednesday 12 June 2002 12:55, you wrote:
Well, In average it takes me from one to two months with the each new SuSE release to make it usable. Generally I have to fix leftover bugs, find missing/corrupted packages
and manually edit configuration files which are generally being screwed by YAST. I prefer to compile and install such packages as MySQL, Apache, Mozilla, kernel, modutils, ALSA, CUPS and other directly from its sources, not from SuSE CD/DVD. SuSE have a bad habit of such excessive customization that later you won't be able to upgrade some packages from its direct vendors. It's still a mystery for me. Why binaries, libraries and configuration files for third party applications can't be left in its default locations defined by the vendors?
Alex
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. Ever since I reinstalled 8 clean (after an initial clean install of
8 that was
bad), I have not been able to complete a shutdown. Always hangs on
Shutting
Down Networking.
But today I went to add a Gateway: Y2|Network/Basic|NetworkCardConfig|Edit|Edit|Routingand add Gateway. OK|Next|Finish
It HANGS ON DEACTIVATE LOCAL NETWORK! And I have to kill it! WTF IS WRONG?
WHY HAS VMWARE GUEST QUIT TALKING TO THE NETWORK? WHY DOES KONQ BYPASS JUNKBUASTER? AND WHY HAS PRINTING NEVER WORKED?!? I
MUST BE ABLE
TO COMMUNICATE AND FSCKING PRINT!!
I have used Suse for a year and Mandrake for two years before that,
and this
new BROKENNESS is INTOLERABLE. HUNDREDS of things WRONG. I have a
mortgage
investment banking business to run, and most of the past month has
been fully
given over to Suse 8!
I know those guys are busy. But this is an unusable product!
Hundreds of
problems I simply don't have time to chase down! Whoops, KMAlL HAS
NOW
COMPLETELY FORGOTTEN ALL ITS SETTINGS, so now I have to completely
configure
it in order to send this message.
Caldera is a mess. RedHat has always been buggy. I am just this
close to
chucking it and going to Apple. I MUST GET WORK DONE IN ORDER TO
SURVIVE!!
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