OpenSUSE Linux Rants

I wonder how many times I could be hit in the chest with a baseball bat and not die. However many times that is, I feel like exactly that has happened. All of your voodoo, hexes, and curses are working. Either that, or I’m getting pneumonia and the flu, and I’ll probably be dead ere I finish my ranting for the day.

You’ll notice I put some banners down the side of my page, here. I have to pay for this thing, somehow. Until someone gives me a better idea, that’s what we get to do. There are one or two things coming down the pipeline, so we’ll see what trainwreck becomes of it all.

I came across an interesting story about how Linux gurus are totally stuck on themselves and give noobs a hard time. Man, if I were a SUSE guru, I would never do such a thing. Judging by the silence I hear, many of you disagree. That’s cool, you just have to get to know me better. There’s nobody nicer than me. Read some of the articles I’ve done for Novell. I try and write them so as to be as absolutely easy as possible to follow and understand. The Xgl one I’m trying to rework is quite challenging for that very reason. Xgl isn’t quite so noob-friendly, but I’m trying to spell everything out in the tutorial as much as possible for the inexperienced SUSE users who want some coolness on their desktop. Check in later this week for the final draft. Yes, I know I said that last week. The difference is that it will actually be available this week and not last week.

TIP OF THE DAY: I have it from a good source that SUSE 10.1 Installation Sources will be compatible with SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 10 and SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10. However, they will not be supported. So, if you blow up your installation by using said Install Sources, it’s your own mess to clean up. I believe the same thing is true for NLD 9 and SLES 9; they can use SUSE 9.1 Install Sources. Worked for me, anyway.

Again tonight, I have a handful of M$ exposé stories, which I don’t have the energy to talk too much about, so I’ll just give you the headlines and links:

• Even the Guru Microsofties Secretly Use Linux
• We need some more of this type of thing going on in the world.
• So… what do we do when security patches actually start breaking things?

Well, that’s all for today, folks. Maybe I’ll jump back on if I can suck some of the crud out of my ear canals, nose, throat, and sinuses. Maybe I’ll post pictures.