On Wed, Jun 18, 2008 at 11:15 PM, Brian K. White
You also conveniently fail to recognize that these are install disks, implying new installations, implying new hardware in most cases. Old machines are largely already running something, and for re-installs, should probably best just re-install the same thing. The remaining tiny fraction of people wanting to do something frankly silly should not consume suse's resources. If you can't upgrade the hardware, then what's so horribly unfair about not upgrading the software?
One of the advantages of Linux is being able to make use of older hardware that other systems have obseleted. If we went by your view, the kernel devs should strip out all support for anything less than a Core2 or an Athlon64. Just obselete all 32bit hardware. Why run it on PPC? Why run it on SPARC? It's pointless to support older hardware. No one can actually use the current Linux on a system that's more than 2 years old. Fortunately for a lot of us, that is not the case. openSUSE supports the PPC from the 601 to the G5. It supports from the Pentium to the Core2. It supports a huge amount of legacy hardware because the drivers have already been perfected. It allows many of use to continue to use 8-10 year old computers that otherwise would be restricted to using out dated and insecure OSs. There's been a discussion at the lowendmac.com site I do a little writing for about the posibility of using Linux as an alternative for MacOS since Leopard dropped support for machines slower than 867Mhz G4's and the next version will probably drop PPC support entirely. So, Apple is dropping support for computers that are barely 3 years old. So, because we have older computers, we should just not use them? My powerbook Wallstreet, once I finally track down a G4/500 upgrade will play XviD encoded movies, and browse the web just fine, not to mention be a very usable machine for word processing. Sure, it's not a speed demon, but the 4 hour battery life makes it worth another $50 investment. And it will be as about as responive as an Asus EEEpc.
No one is forcing you (figurative) to get 11.0 just because it came out. It doesn't magically break your existing install.
Sure, I won't install v11.0 on a Pentium with 48MB RAM. That's what DamnSmallLinux is for. But if openSUSE says that you can run it on a P-III/500, then that is what THEY are supporting. Not what you seem to feel is the appropriate system for their latest release. I've never seen anything saying that if you have a computer less than 2 years old with less than 2GB of RAM to try somewhere else.
I'm sorry you don't like what I have to say on this topic. You are free to have any kind of opinion. But if you want to argue it, you need to come up with a better counter argument than calling your debate opponent a twit.
There's been a lot of useless name calling. It's one thing to get a little animated and come across a little strong. The advantage of Linux is that we are a community of different people with different needs. That's what makes it so much better in so many ways than WinDoZe. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org