Caldera 3.1.1

[Leon A. Goldstein]

"Skippy" (Keith Antoine) observed:

> > Its latest stunt: I installed XCDRoast alpha 10 and the necessary
> > updated libs.
> > When I later installed a different app, YAST decided it did not like the
> > updated
> > XCDRoast and its libs and reinstalled the old versions.
>
> Thats not the only thing it does, I installed a few non Suse tarballs etc plus
> the latest xcdroast. I had crapped on all of them to the extent that i have
> had to reinstall cdrecordtools 3 times so far. It also just reinstalled some
> xine and other streaming video packages. No it and Mandrake are not on my
> Xmas list any longer.
>
I don't know if the SuSE fetish for restoring the cd recording packages
is caused by some security concern or just poor implementation of a good
concept.

SuSE for me is an aggravating distro.  They are good when it comes to
posting updates and how-to's, and by and large it works out of the box.
But somehow it never lives up to expectation.  With Mandrake, on the
other hand, you take it for granted that it is broken from the start.

It's amusing and sometimes educational to play with these distro's, but
after using eDesk 2.4 and Libranet Debian for a couple of years I have
an expectation, perhaps unreasonable in the present state of Linux, that
a Big Buck$ distro will work for me rather than against me.

--
Leon A. Goldstein

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