Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-project (328 mails)

["Eric Springer" <erikina@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, Dec 24, 2008 at 2:16 AM, N B Day <nday@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> If it isn't profitable or convenient to have a boxed release
> simultaneous with the general release, then why not do a box mid cycle
> or even late in the cycle incorporating all the updates and even a dvd
> or two with some of the main repositories?

Absolutely. To most people 2 or 3 months old, is pretty damn new. And
during that time, there's going to be a lot of bugs fixed that the
user would've inevitably ran into (or be swamped with updates .. which
is a nightmare on a slow/dialup/pay-per-usage connection). And also, a
lot of things need time to settle, guides/tutorial updated and
software packaged. For instance, right now I'm unable to get the
proprietary ATI drivers working in 11.1 -- but in a week or two, I'm
sure it'll be well reported (and probably have it's own repository on
ati.com)

And some of the bugs, might even stop the user installing -- which
leaves a terrible impression. The very first time I tried Ubuntu, my
mouse completely didn't work. It wasn't a show stopper for me (I
managed to update without use of the mouse) but it left a bad taste in
my mouth, and I never went near it again, for at least a year.

While it's fun to stay on the cutting edge, it's not what your typical
end user needs/wants. (With the exception of some rare software or
device support). Especially if we're only talking a few month delay.
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