RE: [SLE] I smell SuSE 8.1
-----Original Message----- From: Ben Rosenberg [mailto:ben@whack.org] [...]
As you can see from the information below. You can get KDE 3.0.2 from the ftp site or in this case a mirror of the ftp site. You can also get Gnome2 from the supplementry directory. They are not what shipped w/ any of the numbered SuSE distributions but are available. :)
FTP is your buddy. :)
---- ncftp ...i386/supplementary/KDE > pwd
ftp://ftp.gwdg.de:0/pub/linux/suse/ftp.suse.com/suse/i386/supplementary/KDE/ ncftp ...i386/supplementary/KDE > ls ./ update_for_7.0/ update_for_7.2/ update_for_8.0/ ../ update_for_7.1/ update_for_7.3/ ---- The point I made to somebody, offlist, is that the perception is that there's some added value -- such as additional testing or validation -- that SuSE must be performing on packages, before they make 'em available in YOU. In other words, if it's not in YOU, yet, then it's not ready for prime time. If it's in YOU, then it should be rock solid and compatible, but if it's not in YOU (yet available on the ftp server) then it's "at your own risk, and you'd better know what you are doing... and don't you really want to wait for it to appear as a YOU offering anyway??" Of course, I'm probably wrong and it's just that the guy who puts things on YOU is away on vacation... but that's the feeling a naive person gets. /kevin
On Thursday 11 July 2002 21.04, KMcLauchlan@chrysalis-its.com wrote:
The point I made to somebody, offlist, is that the perception is that there's some added value -- such as additional testing or validation -- that SuSE must be performing on packages, before they make 'em available in YOU.
Traditionally, YOU has been about security fixes, and crucial bug fixes. Not feature upgrades. I haven't seen a public policy statement about it, but I suspect we got 3.0.1 in YOU because 3.0 was so full of bugs.
In other words, if it's not in YOU, yet, then it's not ready for prime time.
That's a bit silly, isn't it, when you consider the massive amount of software that never, ever gets into the Online Update. //Anders
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