[wellylug] Is SUSE a desktop distro? (AARRGGHH!)

[Centurion Computer Technology Ltd]

Err excuse my saturday morning not quite awake grammar

Well may you should blame nVidia, who don't open up their chipset
drivers, and make it difficult for them to be included in linux
distrobutions.  I at the moment am avoiding selling nforce based boards
for this very reason.  Graphics card 3d acceleration is one thing, but
tying up the core functionality of a motherboard is just going too far.

I say boycott them until they open up the source!!!

You can't blame a distro, I'll bet that nVidia will charge to have their
drivers bundled with a distro, which would explain why you only see them
bundled with the Professional pay for distro's.



On Fri, 2004-09-24 at 18:40, Wood Brent wrote:
> --- scanning at paradise.net.nz wrote:
> 
> > Howdy Brent,
> > 
> > I have to say that I am very surprised that SuSE failed to detect the onboard
> > NIC. I have had a few other distros (Gentoo for one) automatically assign
> > these to IEEE 1394 but never SuSE.
> > 
> > Perhaps it is a bug with the Personal version or it could be a bug with the
> > el cheapo cover disk. All I can say is don't trust greying strangers who palm
> > these things off on you late at night ;)
> 
> There is that :-) But I can't claim to have been overcharged.
> 
> The thing that frustrated me most was that as someone who uses & supports
> Linux, and has done so for several years, the whole experience was like back in
> the bad old days when unless you were a programmer/developer you had no chance
> of getting a Linux install working. Like the old 1.x kernels
> 
> Back when I ran RH Linux under Vmware on NT cos I couldn't rely on Linux.... 
> 
> I have been telling people that Linux is ready for the desktop, then a premier
> Linux desktop distro takes what IMHO is a few years backwards step.
> 
> It may just be the cover disk, but if so, Novell/SUSE should disassociate
> themselves from it quickly.
> 
> OTOH, given a Slackware ISO on the same DVD, perhaps those unscrupulous
> Slackware devotees sabotaged the competition :-)
> 
> I'd appreciate any help you can provide to get things working. I'll even pay
> for the Pro edition if that works as it should!
> 
> Thanks,
> 
>    Brent
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