LWN: Comments on "OpenSUSE sacks SaX2"

OpenSUSE sacks SaX2

znmeb — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 09:02:22 +0000

I have been testing openSUSE 11.2 since Milestone 4 alpha releases and in "Production" since RC2. I use Sax2 out of habit, more than anything else, but to be honest, I'm not sure one of my machines is correctly configured after a default install, and I haven't really tried it out with the proprietary NVidia driver.

OpenSUSE sacks SaX2

roblucid — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 17:18:43 +0000

Yes, I think Egbert rather courted controversy by emphasising "business" over technical reasons. The thread I'm following the count of the unhappy only got to 2, 25 mins ago, and the 2nd is more worried about xinitrc and effect on other desktops perhaps commented without following the discussion on XrandR etc.

Unfortunately it often seems the case that Linux sites, seem to report unreliably on openSUSE, or at least report things that don't match the general user experience.

I suppose a furore is a better story, but in the run up to 11.2 the lack of an xorg.conf to hack, did seem to confuse a number of ppl.

OpenSUSE sacks SaX2

nix — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 16:03:46 +0000

About two people seem to be unhappy (oddly, one of the not-unhappy ones is one that dynamic config completely fails to work for, probably because his card and machine are so old that he's used to rolling his own). Everyone else in the thread so far is mostly commenting on how surprisingly well X dynamic config works (my experience too).