-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday, 2009-05-17 at 21:09 +0800, Zhang Weiwu wrote:
在 2009-05-17日的 14:54 +0200,Carlos E. R.写道:
You are the administrator, so you have to administrate. It is your job.
Should I? Although that may sounds stupid but I just want to use OpenSuSE for my daily business, mostly OpenOffice, GNUCash and browse the Internet. I am not sure if I am the rare case here in OpenSUSE mailing list. Are everybody else also system administrators?
Well, computers are complex machines. The intention is for them to work automatically and easily, but sometimes this doesn't happen and someone has to "get dirty" and change things. That means you, a friend, a colleague, even hiring a professional to do it for you. And Linux can be more demanding here (once fully configured, Linux should remain working for years and years, but setup is a bit hard sometimes). PPCs are perhaps more difficult, there are fewer users. The only thing we, over the mail, can do is offer guidance, but in the end, it is you you have to get you hands dirty. So yes, you are the admin of your computer...
And this behaviour changes in every suse version.
Oh! Guess I have a lot to learn to follow up. I'll certainly try that. Thank you!
I mean that 11.1 is much more resilient to mirror failure than 11.0, and this than 10.3, and all less than the future 11.2, because it is work in progress.
Else, you might try to activate metalink support (export ZYPP_ARIA2C=1), assuming your version supports it (11.1 on 86, dunno for ppc).
Thanks for offering hints even the previous post demonstrated my stupid-ness and disqualification of administrator, which I admit.
By the way I managed to get email software running now, this is the first email I sent from this SuSE installation.
Good! :-) - -- Cheers, Carlos E. R. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.9 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAkoQLO8ACgkQtTMYHG2NR9VAOgCdFZLABHNKn9PmkQIIrSmdPT5Y oaQAn0riavj/ZMmgOz196Sc5pMxObBA8 =WIwP -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----