No CDROM issues mentioned at YDL Support

[C Boughton]

I couldn't find any mention of CDROM issues in the support page.  The 
first item on the list (currently) is to do with Panther.  Maybe I was 
too late with my follow-up, I've been away from my computer for a few 
days.  Any other pointers?

Chris (and Bruce), my comments on YDL were made on the basis that my 
machine was not brand new (it's been around for 2 years) and so I would 
have expected many of the install issues to have dissipated.  Further, 
the Airport has been part of the Mac offerings for longer than 2 years 
and it obviously there is a degree of trickiness with getting it going 
from YDL.  I would have thought that some directions (notes) would 
overcome frustration for YDL users.  Whilst some within the YDL 
community might feel that my attitude is rude and offensive, my 
experiences with both Red Hat and Debian have (to date) been excellent 
on a number of different machines starting back on RH 4.x.  My 
expectations were based on the fact of my personal experiences and that 
of a computing department which strongly supports RH and Debian, were 
really good, plus the fact that YDL was based on RH.  So, I was 
somewhat miffed when not only the airport issue occurred which (thanks 
to the YDL mailing lists) I was able to fix, but then something that I 
thought would be fairly basic was somehow overlooked.  My immediate 
reaction and therefore the (offensive) response was one of "Do these 
people know what they're doing?"

I'm not an idiot and I'm not inexperienced - I've developed software, 
managed projects and taught software engineering over the las 30 years.

Regards.

Clive.

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