Comments on: News About OpenSUSE 11.4, Possibly the Last OpenSUSE Release http://techrights.org/2011/04/02/opensuse-11-4-summary/ Free Software Sentry – watching and reporting maneuvers of those threatened by software freedom Thu, 05 Jan 2017 01:24:31 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.9.14 By: twitter http://techrights.org/2011/04/02/opensuse-11-4-summary/comment-page-1/#comment-114193 Tue, 05 Apr 2011 17:32:00 +0000 http://techrights.org/?p=46854#comment-114193 What I’m looking for the independence and robustness that comes from Unix organization and GNU freedom. When I want something changed or fixed is a lot easier to Google an /etc/config solution than it is to crawl through someone else’s GUI maze and auto config. That and a good library of free, highly specialized applications was what drew me to gnu/linux in 1997.

]]> By: Dr. Roy Schestowitz http://techrights.org/2011/04/02/opensuse-11-4-summary/comment-page-1/#comment-114069 Mon, 04 Apr 2011 19:17:35 +0000 http://techrights.org/?p=46854#comment-114069 s/not/no/

]]> By: Dr. Roy Schestowitz http://techrights.org/2011/04/02/opensuse-11-4-summary/comment-page-1/#comment-114068 Mon, 04 Apr 2011 19:17:23 +0000 http://techrights.org/?p=46854#comment-114068 I’ve used it for a while, I still do at work. It’s not longer just suitable for geeks.

]]> By: David Gerard http://techrights.org/2011/04/02/opensuse-11-4-summary/comment-page-1/#comment-114067 Mon, 04 Apr 2011 18:26:25 +0000 http://techrights.org/?p=46854#comment-114067 Desktop, I was thinking of. Sadly my Dell Mini 9 needs a proprietary wifi driver, and I am told this makes Debian rather painful.

I’d also be tempted by Fedora simply because it’s fundamentally a geek distro.

]]> By: twitter http://techrights.org/2011/04/02/opensuse-11-4-summary/comment-page-1/#comment-114065 Mon, 04 Apr 2011 18:13:16 +0000 http://techrights.org/?p=46854#comment-114065 A newer KDE is appealing but OpenSuse’s idea of “manual” is probably not my idea of simple and manual. I’m still smarting from the move to Grub 2, UID booting, dbus, KDE 4 and a host of other things I consider complex headaches. Many of these things seem to be workarounds to bad Intel architecture decisions like ACPI and SATA boot order. Whatever headaches Debian has, I imagine OpenSuse has much worse and more of. The appeal of newer desktop software fades quickly.

]]> By: Dr. Roy Schestowitz http://techrights.org/2011/04/02/opensuse-11-4-summary/comment-page-1/#comment-113890 Sun, 03 Apr 2011 07:03:57 +0000 http://techrights.org/?p=46854#comment-113890 It’s the Ultimate scheme; Charging people as much as they can afford — monopoly makes that possible.

]]> By: Adrian Malacoda http://techrights.org/2011/04/02/opensuse-11-4-summary/comment-page-1/#comment-113886 Sun, 03 Apr 2011 03:18:45 +0000 http://techrights.org/?p=46854#comment-113886 I for one don’t like the superficial distinction between “desktop distros” and “server distros.” Debian for one is meant to be “universal” i.e. it can be used as a server or a desktop. Ubuntu is the same way. BSD too.

“Desktop” or “Server” OSs reminds me of the Microsoft scheme of selling the same product at different prices to different markets.

]]> By: Dr. Roy Schestowitz http://techrights.org/2011/04/02/opensuse-11-4-summary/comment-page-1/#comment-113859 Sun, 03 Apr 2011 00:11:00 +0000 http://techrights.org/?p=46854#comment-113859 For desktop or server?

]]> By: David Gerard http://techrights.org/2011/04/02/opensuse-11-4-summary/comment-page-1/#comment-113857 Sat, 02 Apr 2011 23:45:49 +0000 http://techrights.org/?p=46854#comment-113857 If I got sick of Ubuntu and wanted a manual-transmission distro … wouldn’t Debian be the obvious choice?

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