Posted by: Anonymous Coward
on December 12, 2006 08:01 AM
Joe, you should really check out Mandriva 2007.
I did after having the same frustrations you are having with OpenSuse 10.2. Opensuse is very good, but has some very annying quirks in the package management department.
I also don't understand why the cripple Kaffeine and Amarok.
There are no legal requirements to do this as kaffeine and Amarok on their own do not do anything without the required plug-ins. Just to be perfectly clear, we are not asking Novell to enable MP3 or DVD playback. What we are asking Novell to do is to leave these programs alone so that if a user installs the required codecs and plugins, these applications can play MP3s or DVDs. Currently, the Novell version needs to be uninstalled and substituted with one downloaded from the pacman repository in what for most new users is a less than intuitive process.
I also keep having problems with evolution forgetting my passwords and a hundred other issues I never had with Ubuntu or now with Mandriva 2007, which I have found to be the best of the lot. For what is worth, I stopped using Mandriva a while back only to rediscover how good this current version is.
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Posted by: Anonymous Coward on December 12, 2006 08:01 AMI did after having the same frustrations you are having with OpenSuse 10.2. Opensuse is very good, but has some very annying quirks in the package management department.
I also don't understand why the cripple Kaffeine and Amarok.
There are no legal requirements to do this as kaffeine and Amarok on their own do not do anything without the required plug-ins. Just to be perfectly clear, we are not asking Novell to enable MP3 or DVD playback. What we are asking Novell to do is to leave these programs alone so that if a user installs the required codecs and plugins, these applications can play MP3s or DVDs. Currently, the Novell version needs to be uninstalled and substituted with one downloaded from the pacman repository in what for most new users is a less than intuitive process.
I also keep having problems with evolution forgetting my passwords and a hundred other issues I never had with Ubuntu or now with Mandriva 2007, which I have found to be the best of the lot. For what is worth, I stopped using Mandriva a while back only to rediscover how good this current version is.
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