On Sat, Jul 5, 2008 at 8:14 PM, Fred A. Miller
Carlos E. R. wrote:
The Saturday 2008-07-05 at 17:25 -0400, Fred A. Miller wrote:
Now, is all this correct or not?! IF not, then why did openSUSE 11.0 ship with a defective dazuko?! Antivir may not be critical for me, but it sure is for businesses of mixed environment. Someone had to know that this was defective before release.
Instead of grumbling, you and/or the prospective users could have tested 11.0 while it was beta and reported the problem in time. Or, being business, they could use the business version, ie, sles.
Carlos, don't even go there. I had no reason to even mess with Antivir till recently....AFTER 11.0 released. Now, there are sys. admins. who are testing 11.0 to replace either MickySoft and/or a diff. distro. like RH. Well, it's NOT going to happen simply because someone dropped the ball and released a compiled dazuko that won't run. Does this affect me? No....not that much, because if I need a version that does run out-of-the-box for a business, I'll simply use another disto. that does...no problem.
So, this hurts Novell and openSUSE a whole lot more than it does me.
On the other hand the problem is being actively investigated and a solution is near, as you can easily investigate and find out.
I didn't read anything like that.....but thanks for the info. It's too late for one site, I think.
Are they not using long software maintenance cycles? That is the "norm" in any large managed corporate IT environment (just because SUSE 11, RHEL 5, Windows Vista, etc came out <1 month ago doesn't mean you need to go and suddenly upgrade all the systems) Part of that life cycle includes testing and resolving know issues. By ranting on the mailing list you aren't doing much to get it to work. You have not posted any description of the problem except for "it doesn't work" and implying that somehow openSUSE was coded to explicitly disallow the software from running. Did all software work out of the box the day or even a month after Windows Vista was released? No. Did all the large IT shops suddenly jump the gun and upgrade their workstations? No, but I'm sure they they begun testing it and trying to resolve the issues they found with the relavant vendors. Heck this year I've seen a few cases of Windows 2000 systems replaced with Windows XP systems (usually the hardware and OS lifecycles are the same) An off-the-shelf antivirus is the least of your concerns.. the issue should be fixed in a reasonable amount of time. I'd worry more about testing and correcting any inhouse/custom applications. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help@opensuse.org