a crackpot idea i had

[Keith Antoine]

On Wednesday 22 May 2002 23:17, Leon A. Goldstein wrote:

> I am interested in the answer too.  At the risk of starting a small bush
> fire, I'd suggest cease flagellating yourself
> with SuSE and try a nice Debian like Libranet.

The point here is that I dislike almost as much as I do Suse/Mandrake, its 
still in the last century. The only distro I had great sucess with was 
Caldera, I even liked LTP, I could and did work with them, hence my interest 
in dep's suggestion.

> Case in point: I dloaded xcdroast alpha 10 and ancillary libs for SuSE
> 8.0.  They installed OK, but even with the
> "no-root" option selected SuSE 8.0 refuses to let me run xcdroast in
> user.

Now this is a point where I had complete success, always have with xcdroast, 
where others have not. I have Xcdroast working fine as a user but not 
recognising the reader. On the otherhand Koncd does see a reader ?? BUT!  go 
into root and set it up, bingo it crashes.

> I then dloaded alpha 10 and ancillary libs from Debian.org and installed
> it in Libranet 2.0.2.  It works fine.
> And it recognizes my DVD as a SCSI device.

There are other points with the suse/mandrake too in that I have graet 
difficulty with video streaming progs. I need a combination of programs some 
work fine in Suse and not in mandrake or vice versa.

I retried Caldera recently as 3.1.1 and most of the programs installed fine 
and dvd was recognised. Updating however was a nightmare and no interest from 
the company.

As I said to dep a while ago it like Sir Lancelot and the Holy Grail, 
searching for the; what I call perfect distro for me, the others all want to 
foist on me a set of rules and assumptions.

-- 
Keith Antoine (GANDALF) aka 'skippy'
18 Arkana St, The Gap, Queensland 4061 Australia PH:61733002161
Retired Geriatric, Sometime Electronics Engineer, Knowall, Brain in storage