On Saturday 03 December 2005 08:38, Peter wrote:
More weird things in Suse.
At startup, after upgrading to 9.3, a warning message saying that some Ximian pixmaps connected with OpenOffice are not found. Cannot for the life of me figure out what is looking for them! The menu entries seem to be using the standard icon from the usual KDE folder.
In 9.2, ll of a sudden, cdrecord was stated to be unavailable when trying to burn CDs. Check using YaST and it is there. Check the permissions, and they haven't changed. Try to do setup in k3b, setup seems to have vanished from the menu. Then when trying to configure k3b, the CD drive seemed to have vanished.
There's probably a couple more things if I carry on thinking about it. It is just too flaky for serious use.
Peter
Whilst SuSE isn't perfect, I'd tend to have a look at your hardware or something old chap, because that sounds like something's broken in a really out-of-the-ordinary type way :)
Personally, whilst it's not the best I've had, I've found SuSE to be pretty solid.
What I've found to be FAR from solid, is reiserfs, and I still won't entrust any system to experimental hacks of it.
I have to concur with you on one thing - whilst the hardware support in SuSE (and pre-9.2 is all I know) is generally very good, there are some real pigs of problems with it at the moment. Still, it's not that hard to recompile a kernel.
What I have to say is this - there are times when SuSE is a boon because it supports mundane day-to-day computing without catastrophe* (and without unnecessary hacking during worktime) in the the sort of way people expect from a desktop OS, without the tendency for everything to break after seemingly arbitrary amounts of time and get reinstalled.
I'm sure you have similar experiences with Mandrake (sorry, Mandriva) but there are plenty of folk who've had just the opposite experience with flakiness :)
*Oh God, what have I done - talk about tempting fate.