FilePro Linux

Fairlight fairlite at fairlite.com
Tue Jul 27 13:46:19 PDT 2021


> Maybe, but I don't remember it ever biting me personally.

Lucky you!  :)

> In fact, if anything, I remember being pretty impressed what it could
> deal with.

It was decent overall, but I prefer knowing the underlying subsystems
and just using an editor.  yast is just too much navigating around to do
simple edits, for my liking.

> I *do* remember that there were some things where you had to make a
> change, and then save and close Yast and reopen it to make a different
> change.

Hell, VMware ESXi does that.  I literally just hit this today, and I'm
floored that the HTML5 interface is this dumb:

1) Have two hard drives.  Edit Settings.

2) Reassign both the hard drives to different SCSI IDs, then reassign
them to swapped positions (basically, swap 0:0 and 0:1, but you have to
temporarily select middle-men, or it complains you're trying to use an
occupied channel).

3) Save.

4) Edit Settings again.  Oh gee, look...your drives are right where they
started off last time.

You literally have to change each drive one at a time, then save them
out.  Then it will work properly.

No warnings, no info boxes.  Just b0rke3d.

Infuriating, and a waste of time and effort.

m->
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