Comments on: How Firefox flows downstream http://zonker.opensuse.org/2008/06/16/how-firefox-flows-downstream/ Shining a spotlight on the openSUSE Community Sat, 05 Dec 2009 17:44:45 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Kevin Dupuy http://zonker.opensuse.org/2008/06/16/how-firefox-flows-downstream/comment-page-1/#comment-397 Kevin Dupuy Fri, 20 Jun 2008 17:52:02 +0000 http://zonker.opensuse.org/?p=149#comment-397 Not to mention Firefox in openSUSE has a special add-on: our Beagle indexing plug-in. So we need to package Firefox to get that included in openSUSE. Not to mention Firefox in openSUSE has a special add-on: our Beagle indexing plug-in. So we need to package Firefox to get that included in openSUSE.

]]> By: Ryan Smith http://zonker.opensuse.org/2008/06/16/how-firefox-flows-downstream/comment-page-1/#comment-390 Ryan Smith Wed, 18 Jun 2008 17:26:06 +0000 http://zonker.opensuse.org/?p=149#comment-390 I wanted to download and install FF3 so I found this cool tip for openSUSE 10.3 users: http://forums.opensuse.org/applications/386197-firefox-3-rpm.html I wanted to download and install FF3 so I found this cool tip for openSUSE 10.3 users: http://forums.opensuse.org/applications/386197-firefox-3-rpm.html

]]> By: Jörg Cassens http://zonker.opensuse.org/2008/06/16/how-firefox-flows-downstream/comment-page-1/#comment-389 Jörg Cassens Mon, 16 Jun 2008 22:41:52 +0000 http://zonker.opensuse.org/?p=149#comment-389 Bug testing is one, but having one place only to update (almost) all of your software is the one killer feature for me. Work related, I have a seldom booted Windows partition, and my wife is an OS X user. On most of my Linux boxes, the only manual interaction comes with kernel updates and the like, and all of the software is kept up to date - not only the OS, or a selected few applications. On my laptop, I start the update and get myself a coffee, and don't do anything more with it. My regular Windows and OS X updates drive me nuts, spending hours for updating disparage application, using a dozen different update applications. Does Linux need an easier install process? No, we already have good ones available... and an unbeaten update process. I trade in a wait for Firefox for the tight integration with my system anytime. Besides, as far as I understand, the folks at Mozilla rely on the Linux distributors to iron out their own bugs (hint: the not so awesome performance thanks to reliance on a certain database). So, yes, I rather prefer to get my Firefox from SUSE (and OpenOffice.org with enhanced functions compared to Sun's offering, and a usable KDE4, and ...). Bug testing is one, but having one place only to update (almost) all of your software is the one killer feature for me. Work related, I have a seldom booted Windows partition, and my wife is an OS X user. On most of my Linux boxes, the only manual interaction comes with kernel updates and the like, and all of the software is kept up to date – not only the OS, or a selected few applications. On my laptop, I start the update and get myself a coffee, and don’t do anything more with it. My regular Windows and OS X updates drive me nuts, spending hours for updating disparage application, using a dozen different update applications.

Does Linux need an easier install process? No, we already have good ones available… and an unbeaten update process.

I trade in a wait for Firefox for the tight integration with my system anytime. Besides, as far as I understand, the folks at Mozilla rely on the Linux distributors to iron out their own bugs (hint: the not so awesome performance thanks to reliance on a certain database). So, yes, I rather prefer to get my Firefox from SUSE (and OpenOffice.org with enhanced functions compared to Sun’s offering, and a usable KDE4, and …).

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