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On Mon, 16 May 2005 12:57:59 +0100 (BST) Martin White wrote:
I have to say that i'm starting to question the whole worth of the £60 purchase price!! I was wandering about the lack of right click option to safely remove a usb mounted filesystem too. That's standard KDE fare iirc so what on earth has possesed SUSE to remove it in favour of opening a console, SUing to root and unmounting the filesystem is way beyond me.
As far as I was aware it wasn't actually a KDE thing. KDE will allow you to right-click and umount any "volumes" that are either mounted by you or have the "users" (notice the s at the end) option set in the fstab... in which case problems with usb-keys is more than likely an error on SuSE's hotplug scripts, not KDE. But you're right - it is a simple thing that shouldn't be "broken" like that.
Very few casual linux users and linux newbies are going to realise you should do this and most will probably just yank the memory card out!
This is true... so let's just hope that SuSE *have* included the "sync" option in their hotplug scripts.
Strange... Oh yeah, let's not even talk about the crippling of the multimedia features.
What multimedia features? RedHat decided not to include libraries to play MP3 files... does that constitute "crippling"? Mandrake shipped with kernels that didn't have "multi-lun support" in their kernels which made it almost impossible to use those 8-in-1 card readers... is that "crippling"? It all depends on what your uses are and what you expect.
I got round my problems by downloading a trial of VMWare 5, installing a Windows XP guest and then running the software in that (this wasn't all to do with the USB problems, i also couldn't find a decent linux replacement for the windows program clrmamepro).
Did you try running ClrMAMAPro under Wine? You can't *expect* all Windows applications to have Linux equivalents.
Now if only VMWare wasn't another $189 on top of what SUSE cost me :)
There are other products. WINE, CrossOver, WineX (now known as Cedega), Win4Lin, Bochs, etc, etc.
It's times like these when i start to question my use of linux unfortunately. I simply can't afford two evenings of farting about installing and doing stuff when in windows it would have taken me about 15 minutes :(
That's a shame. In those two evenings of "farting about" you will have learnt one hell of a lot more about your system and Linux than you could possibly have learnt in those 15 minutes of clicking yes to a bunch of EULAs and selling your soul... :D Taking control of your own system is not everyone's first choice. Just as some like to use public transport and have no say in the route they take, so some will always be happy just using Windows systems. Me? I like to decide for myself. Grant. -- Artificial intelligence is no match for nuratal stidutipy. -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG Mail majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with "unsubscribe list" in the message body to unsubscribe. FAQ: www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html