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

[Don Parris]

On Thu, 18 Nov 2004 09:21:59 -0500, Fred A. Miller
<fmiller at lightlink.com> wrote:
> On Wednesday November 17 2004 7:40 pm, N. Thompson wrote:
> 
> 
> > http://www.osnews.com/story.php?news_id=8893
> >
> > -----------------------
> >
> > 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
> 

That's funny, I've always installed the vanilla OOo on SUSE 8.0 Pro,
and never had to tweak it.

Don
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