James wrote regarding 'Re: [SLE] new v9.2 is out' on Fri, Oct 08 at 11:07:
Steve Kratz wrote:
Actually, the .2 releases have proven to be the best. Skip .0 and.1 if you will, but always snap up .2.
Kind of like the Star Trek movies, eh? Even numbers are good, odds are bad (or was that the other way around?)
Any with Bill Shatner are bad. Calling him a good actor (or singer) is comparable to calling "Dubya" a good president. ;-)
Or calling Kerry a good alternative. ;) To stay on topic, though: BTW, I'm still running SuSE 7.1 and 7.2 on some production machines. I got tired of paying $60 every few months. The Gentoo incremental update ideal really appeals to me, and I wonder why more distros don't do things that way. Why is SuSE holding back new versions of all this software and then deciding that, if I want to update, I'll have to do it en masse rather than just updating when the updates are deemed stable? KDE 3.3 has been around for a while, why couldn't it just be certified with the current set of stable apps instead of requiring another full system release? Is it purely a money thing, or does SuSE have a reason that the Gentoo (just as an example) people are missing? --Danny, wishing he could get excited about an election - any election (and drifting offtopic again)