On Tuesday 29 October 2002 20:11, Chris Carlen wrote: -- snip
Well, I have spent an afternoon wasting time describing the problems, and finding more problems at such a high rate that I am left with no other choice but to conclude that this distribution is unuseable for business in it's current state. I could spend another few weeks cleaning it all up, but I have work to do. Maybe hobbyists have that kind of time to play with their toys, but I have work to do, and this doesn't fit the bill. Can someone point me to a professional computer user's OS that works please?
A sad day.
<soapbox> I'm sure that the KDE and SuSE folks would love to hear these misc. bug reports and such. Perhaps the vast majority of us linux users out there spend so much troubleshooting time in man pages or google, that many haven't properly tested/commented on the SuSE helpcenter. And that, of course, would hinder SuSE in it's attempts to improve it. The KDE problems obviously need to be looked that, and perhaps with a bug report to SuSE and so forth a patched KDEbase will come out that addresses these issues. I agree with the OpenOffice rant, it's a pretty good app, but I've run into a good deal of issues with how it operates. Perhaps around 1.5 or 2.1 it'll be polished up good enough to be a serious competetor to M$ Office. My advice would be to snip up your post and the different parts to SuSE, KDE, and OpenOffice, and see what comes of it. Most likely updated RPMS in a couple of weeks, I'd hope. Rants are fine, but SuSE 8.2 won't be any better if the rants aren't given to the people that need them. And, honestly, if you want something that works all around as an OS out of the box, I'd have to say at this point that Mac OSX 10.2 is very polished and complete. When the linux community comes out with a GUI that's as seamless and polished as Aqua is, M$ won't be the richest company in existence for long. They're close already, it's just a matter of time. </soapbox>