[CS-FSLUG] SUSE gets favourable review for use on Laptops

[Fred A. Miller]

On Wednesday November 17 2004 7:40 pm, N. Thompson wrote:
> http://www.osnews.com/story.php?news_id=8893
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> I'm neither a fan of OSNews nor am I too keen on giving SUSE another try
> but it does seem, from what the article says, that Novell/SUSE is
> putting in some serious effort into better laptop support. Now if only
> someone could talk them out of messing around with OpenOffice.org and
> get them to put more effort into optimizing the distribution and YaST so
> it will actually be able to compare to other distributions as far as
> speed goes.

They HAVE to mess with OO as those knuckleheads refuse to not stray from the 
standards set down by committee! I've had "code jockeys" from SUSE AND another 
distro. tell me the same thing!

> Fred, do you have good connections with SUSE? Ask them to stop messing
> around with the default settings (bullet size etc...) in OO.o and ask
> them to optimize it better so I can use the distribution again ;-) .

They don't do all that much to it.....just what's needed to get it to install 
properly, and that's all they do.

Fred

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