The Tuesday 2004-05-25 at 23:40 +0100, Jake wrote:
SUSE can't really be blamed for aiming 9.1 personal at newbies. They have to try and grow the market.
One of the things that fascinated me as a newby was the number of desktops I could choose from, an not only gnome or kde - around Suse 5.2. That is, "choice" is one of the strongs points of linux, and limiting a distro (even a "personal") to only gnome, or only kde, doesn't seem good, IMO. That said, I never bought the personal version, because I always felt it was too limited.
Seems the messages here from people suprised at not being able to compile stuff, not finding Gnome .. etc are understandable too in a way.
People are surprised because the personal version is probably not clearly labeled, as to what it has and what not, in the box itself, before the buyer opens it.
I still think we run the best distro.
Yes. But we want even better :-) -- Cheers, Carlos Robinson