John Andersen wrote:
Actually my experience is that you get your answer to all solvable problems usually within an hour of posting on the list.
Unsolvable problems (hardware problems, and those questions so arcane and obscure as to require kernel hackers to respond) tend to never get answered.
That's a little too coarse - I think questions asked here might be better divided into: 1) Problems/questions with fairly well known solutions/answers. Obviously does not have to be known to everybody; examples include how to rename a network interface or configure ntp. 2) Problems that require diagnostic information and analysis of the same. E.g. lspci/dmesg/lsusb output or excerpts from /var/log/* 3) Arcane/obscure problems that does not require a kernel hacker. 4) Unsolvable/arcane/obscure problems that does require a kernel hacker. Type1 questions are frequently answered quite fast, quite often within hours. Type2 can take 24hours to a few days, but are also often answered satisfactorily. Type3 are occasionally answered too, but it's a matter of luck. Type4 are rarely if ever answered. None of these problems are "unsolvable", but 3 and 4 are hard/difficult. Here's a type3 question - can I create an etherboot PXE boot-disk (for booting opnesuse) with support for more than one type NIC? e.g. both 3C509 and RTL8139 ? /Per Jessen, Zürich -- http://www.spamchek.com/ - managed email security. Starting at SFr4/user/month. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org