On Thu, 2004-01-08 at 00:06, Richard L. Proctor wrote:
> On Wednesday 07 January 2004 5:50 pm, Craig White wrote:
> 
> > I can appreciate that you have an opinion and I will accept that it's
> > valid.
> >
> > I am always troubled by the switch distro answer to someone who is
> > struggling because it really offers no help, at least not with any
> > certainty that it will do a better job than what he is using.
> >
> > Craig
> 
> Well mostly because he's using Redhat 8.0 which is outdated obviously by 9.0 
> and which is now an abandoned project.  
---
actually RH 9 (there never was a 9.0) is still supported - so is 8.0 but
not by Red Hat and thus certainly 9 and possibly 8.0 are not 'abandoned'
- your term. Both have been replaced by Fedora-fc1 and I'm gathering fc2
is RSN.

Your suggestion to Victor to switch to SuSE 9.0 helps him how? 

The point that I apparently am never gonna make with you, but perhaps
might resonate with someone, somewhere is that someone complaining that
they are having problems with something is not going to benefit from 10
people telling him that THEIR DISTRO is better.

I'm sure that SuSE is a good distro, it looked pretty good the last time
that I played with it. Judging from the number of comments / discussions
here though - at this moment, there are likely to be far more people
capable of answering Debian questions than Red Hat questions and far
more people capable of answering Red Hat questions than SuSE questions
and in the end, what he really asked for was help with resolving his
issues.

Of course, he is free to take your advice and wipe it all out and start
anew with SuSE (actually, I think 9.1 is just about out the door) and
judging from the fact that I see you offering little assistance to the
support questions asked around here, it would seem to me that if he runs
into problems with SuSE, the local Phoenix pool of help might be a bit
thin.

Craig