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roberts

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Posted: Jan. 03 2008,00:22

Would you expect Microsoft to post known issues about Adobe products, or Firefox issues.

Really?

While using Microsoft isn't that

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is the sum of all of its parts

Give me a break.

Things like this make me want to walk away from such a thankless group.

DSL should not be given negatives, if you could even call it that, that belong to their respective projects.

TinyX <> Full X

If you have, what you think, is an issue, take it up with the respective responsbile party.

Stop being to damn negative.

This is too much B.S.

lucky13

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Posted: Jan. 03 2008,02:38

Oh good bleeping grief. Messing all over yourself over whether a light comes on even though the key functions?! If you're so disturbed by a certain light not coming on (even though the button functions properly otherwise) *and* too overwhelmed to install an extension to "fix" it when it disturbs you so much, maybe you shouldn't be the one adding pages about "known issues" to the wiki -- maybe leave it to those who feel more comfortable and level-headed about such things.

I don't believe this. And it's not even a full moon!

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jpeters

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Posted: Jan. 03 2008,05:26

Quote (lucky13 @ Jan. 02 2008,21:38)

I don't believe this. And it's not even a full moon!

I'm beginning to think these guys are on the MS payrole, and after laborous research, this is the best they could come up with....

john.martzouco Offline

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Posted: Jan. 03 2008,14:38

Quote (roberts @ Jan. 02 2008,19:22)

Would you expect Microsoft to post known issues about Adobe products, or Firefox issues.

My direct answer to your question is, No.

But we both know that Microsoft does not ship or rely on those products. If they did, my answer to you would be completely different.

DSL ships and relies on the product that is at fault here. DSL is built on many other products and as such, has an obligation to its user base to divulge any known issues related to those products. Because DSL's core is (emphatically) the sum of its pieces.

If my laptop had been destroyed when ACPI didn't function under DSL, I should expect that you'd feel some remorse. As a result of that experience, I should expect that the community would make their best efforts to advise all other users and prospects to pay attention to the cooling fans on their machines. This would be a reasonably professional response.

DSL presents a public image of being a dependable operating system - it needs to live up to that... by publicly showcasing both its strong points and its included faults.

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Things like this make me want to walk away from such a thankless group.

It saddens me that you have so little tolerance for any constructive criticism. DSL is not perfect, but it's very Damn Good.

I've thanked you and the other members of this community many, many times and am still very fond of this product.

roberts

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Posted: Jan. 03 2008,15:08

Constructive crictism? What kind of logic is that when it is not under my control. That is not my work. It belongs to another project.. Good god, I don't claim to have written everything. Do you know what FSF is all about?

Is your logic to document what you are missing by using a 48MB distro?

Lets post eveything that does not work like a 600MB distro.

Instead of celebrating small lets try to find everything that it does not provide what Windows can do, or any larger distro can do.

You seem to know it all.

Lets document what is missing in murgaLua. Lets document why tinyC cannot be a replacment for gcc. Why can't read Ted handle every rtf from my Microsoft products? What about the excel viewer? Lets document the features that FLTK does not provide over GTK2. Also you need to add the differences from GTK1 and GTK2. Afterall, the other distros have GTK2. These are known limitiations of DSL. Afterall DSL is the sum of its parts. DSL needs to be accountable for every known issue or evey project that DSL includes.

Or perhaps, it is not even an issue, but by design, because being dramatically smaler, means having less (features). Is that so hard to understand? But, you, have already determined that for that project it is even a known issue. You are the determinator of all. Amazing!

Edited by roberts on Jan. 03 2008,15:10

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