Mmm. Is it not time this discussion came to a graceful end ? One of the posters yesterday quoted verbatim the README on this topic from the Suse FTP site.
Well Cliff, the "ISO Express" discussion actually didn't deal with the README from the ftp site, but the concept of priority FTP access for ISO's and updates, similar to what RedHat has in it's RH Network.
SuSE have a policy on this, and I personally have problems with it as well...however this discussion crops up every few months and changes nothing.
True. SuSE is fairly set it what it plans to do...
Comparisons with Debian and Slackware are irrelevant. Do note the fact the they are ".org", not commercial organisations
True, but I was going for an exhaustive list, so in that case I did want to include them. The others mentioned are all commercial enterprises, and every single one of them has official ISO's available.
My problems with Suse are that they clearly bring out too many releases a year amd inadequately test their upgrades. That is the main reason I would buy and install a distribution in full. I keep daily backups of all critical files, so I can usually reproduce the status-quo if (and in the case of 7.3 this is a very big if) I decide I need a newer version.
I would definately agree... I think perhaps maybe two releases a year would be appropreate to insure that it wouldn't become too outdated (like RH does), and yet avoid this every-three month thing.
Personally I am more interested in updated kernels, than in updated distributions. Linux still has a way to go...it is
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