Eugene Lee wrote:
At this stage, SuSE can NEVER be a home desktop solution. Why?
Because there is no simple control panel to chage fundamentally trivial settings like switching duplex of the Ethernet card on boot.
Familiar chorus, years old, variation on the theme "Linux can never, will never, can't, doesn't", plus many I'm sure I've missed as there are too many over too many years. Apologies to those who have heard this told before, the owner of a flight school said once that two professions were the most difficult to train to fly, doctors first and computer people next because of blinkered thinking. He asked me what I did for a living and when I replied I was in computers, he said "thought so", his lady wife also told me a story where he asked a guy the same question, then turned over an A4 pad that said "YOU WORK IN COMPUTERS". We know it's not a 100% affliction, but it is a strong trait amongst many of us, many without peripheral perception, the sort of "if it aint fried eggs and bacon, it has to be late afternoon" mentality. When you see Linux "doesn't do xyz" and you know it does and it works fine, you have to wonder. Like a post here previously that said "No MP3 encoder", then you do a simple check on google or freshmeat and get washed away with hits. People have the latest greatest computers, but some don't know how to use them, OK, sometimes other people like G6NJR will alert me to a nice piece of software I haven't heard of, but I do follow closely what apps are available in Linux and the goodness of them, some have the mental dexterity to ask the question on forums like this one. If you start out with the thought that if you can't find it in your favourite distro, it doesn't exist, you are like the horse in the corrall saying there is no grass around, except the horse is smarter as if ever the corrall gets breached (or the grass is in a plastic bag labelled fish), she knows how to find grass and I'm sure if she could respond in ways we could understand, would ask "who are you calling a dumb animal?", her corrall is physical not psychological. Regards Sid. -- Sid Boyce .... Hamradio G3VBV and keen Flyer ===== LINUX ONLY USED HERE =====