suse 8.2 networking

[Michael Scottaline]

On Fri, 25 Apr 2003 15:50:11 -0700
"Net Llama!" <netllama at linux-sxs.org> insightfully noted:

>On 04/25/03 15:37, dep wrote:
>> On Friday 25 April 2003 06:17 pm, Net Llama! wrote:
>> | On 04/25/03 15:07, dep wrote:
>> | > On Friday 25 April 2003 04:36 pm, Net Llama! wrote:
>> | > | On Fri, 25 Apr 2003, dep wrote:
>> | > | > this is nuts.
>> | > | >
>> | > | > i spent the better part of two days trying to get the nvidia
>> | > | > driver
>> | > |
>> | > | [SNIP]
>> | > |
>> | > | Just curious.  If you're going through such hell with SuSE, why
>> | > | don't you use something else?
>> | >
>> | > because everything else is worse. i mean, it might be easier to
>> | > install, but then it's what you end up with. if ease of
>> | > installation were the sole determinant, we'd all be running dos
>> | > and windows 3.0.
>> |
>> | at the risk of starting a distro war, there's no conceivable way
>> | that Redhat is worse.  I've never had any of the problems that
>> | you've been describing on Redhat (7.2, 7.3 or 9).  Have you
>> | actually tried any other alternatives (recently)?
>> 
>> when you install red hat, the install may well go smoothly, but 
>> unfortunately you end up with red hat.
>
>exactly.  you don't hear me complaining about cryptic configuration 
>tools, broken networking, and misplaced files.
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Unless what belongs in /opt ends up "misplaced" in /usr/local  ;-)
[couldn't resist....] <|8^)
Best,
Mike

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