OpenSUSE Linux Rants

I just have to open with this: Pentium-powered LCD/TV runs SUSE Linux. Now seriously, if Linux is not ready for the desktop as some claim, what in the hell is it doing on a TV? Go figure. I guess they must be wrong. Honestly, though, SUSE is one of the distributions that is the best suited for a desktop. I would have to guess that this would have some remote thing to do with why Novell has made it into one. This LCD/TV thing evidently comes in a touch-screen car version. How many kidneys do I have to sell to get one of those?

Looks like CompUSA is stepping to the plate with support for Linux. This is in addition to the fact that they already sell SUSE Linux. The national chain is now selling “the Xandros desktop product in all of its stores across the United States,” according to what I read on the subject. So, if you have no way to get your M$ friends to try out SUSE Linux, run them to CompUSA. Because everyone knows that

Neither do brothers, sisters, siblings of any kind, parents, children, grandparents, step uncles-in-law, third half-step nephews-in-law four times removed from your great grand aunt’s ninth step sister-in-law’s thirteenth gerbil, square the thirteenth root of the co-operand of the multiplicative inverse, carry the one, divide that into the negative half-life of the 15th allele of your maternal genome, or any other relationship that can possibly exist between two human beings, except maybe for blood enemy ninjas from 11th Century Japan.