Posted by: Anonymous Coward
on February 28, 2006 11:53 PM
1st - Re: the missing parts mentioned in the article... SuSE 9.x, 10.x still requires a geek level of knowledge to get up and going to the ability that the article suggests. New users are not adept at performing the tasks needed to install the missing parts. Ubuntu Automatix is much better than this, but still to find it and get it installed requires some "geeky-ability" as it is not graphical from the get go!
2nd - EASY BACKUP SOFTWARE IS NOT A Graphical MENU CHOICE ON DEFAULT INSTALL... SuSE, Ubuntu, and others, don't have some easy graphical tools for Backups, partical backups, and selective backups of data from certain LINUX applications!
For example: I wanted to tell a friend today how to back up his Evolution data, so I look for the latest online and I get to page/support info with alot of command line referances. This friend has never seen a command line ever... and to give someone instructions like this who has only lived in a graphical world... is insane! Does anyone know if Ubuntu or SuSE has the ability to add a graphical backup button that will allow for selective backups? I know there is no way inside Evolution to backup the data to a file that could be imported... unless I missed something (why do Linux developers skip this important step that everyday users need to exist)?
Even instructions for backing up the HOME directory, some Linux help pates are saying, that this home backup will leave the Evolution data and configurations NOT fully backed up! Those that have used this and tried to restore it find that Evolution is broken when they attempt to restore?
So - how do we backup SuSE 9.3, 10.x data for Evolution data (Evolution data is used to merge with OpenOffice - for the office use to send mail, print labels, etc) where is is not a shock for this user?
3rd - The friend has a problem with a broken Kaffine (I set it up so that it was running but it is now broken and I have to visit to see what is going on). The comment from this friend was, If this breaks who do I call? It is a Dell dual boot and I said well you still have Windows installed and can use it too (OpenOffice is on this XP side of the install too but it is configured never to see the internet)!
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Posted by: Anonymous Coward on February 28, 2006 11:53 PM2nd - EASY BACKUP SOFTWARE IS NOT A Graphical MENU CHOICE ON DEFAULT INSTALL... SuSE, Ubuntu, and others, don't have some easy graphical tools for Backups, partical backups, and selective backups of data from certain LINUX applications!
For example: I wanted to tell a friend today how to back up his Evolution data, so I look for the latest online and I get to page/support info with alot of command line referances. This friend has never seen a command line ever... and to give someone instructions like this who has only lived in a graphical world... is insane! Does anyone know if Ubuntu or SuSE has the ability to add a graphical backup button that will allow for selective backups? I know there is no way inside Evolution to backup the data to a file that could be imported... unless I missed something (why do Linux developers skip this important step that everyday users need to exist)?
Even instructions for backing up the HOME directory, some Linux help pates are saying, that this home backup will leave the Evolution data and configurations NOT fully backed up! Those that have used this and tried to restore it find that Evolution is broken when they attempt to restore?
So - how do we backup SuSE 9.3, 10.x data for Evolution data (Evolution data is used to merge with OpenOffice - for the office use to send mail, print labels, etc) where is is not a shock for this user?
3rd - The friend has a problem with a broken Kaffine (I set it up so that it was running but it is now broken and I have to visit to see what is going on). The comment from this friend was, If this breaks who do I call? It is a Dell dual boot and I said well you still have Windows installed and can use it too (OpenOffice is on this XP side of the install too but it is configured never to see the internet)!
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