Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-testing (33 mails)

[Boyd Lynn Gerber <gerberb@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, 17 Sep 2008, Quentin Jackson wrote:
> On the whole Opensuse / SLED topic, what are the chances of adjustment 
> for provisioning of an equally stable opensuse distro?  I love OpenSuSE 
> but I used SLED10 extensively until it got too outdated for my hardware 
> simply because of the awesome stability.  There's a definate difference 
> even in the pre Service Pack release between SLED and the OpenSuSE 
> version in my opinion.

I tend to agree, but I really like having my customer's on SLED and SLES. 
They were previous SCO OS's and they do not like to upgrade/change very 
often so the SLES and SLED are really good.  The problem is that SLED 
seems to not be updated soon enough.  I tried to replace a few vista 
machines with SLED and was unable to because the new HW would not work 
with SLED.  I now have them dual booting to openSUSE 11.0 and vista, but 
they need a longer more reliable option.  I would really be hesitant 
putting openSUSE in the corperate offices because of the 2 year cycle. 
The do not like to update very often.  They like their UNIX/Linux to just 
run and not have to deal with it.

> So, what is the wider opensuse team doing to aim for a more stable OS? 
> I'm not saying OpenSuSE is unstable, but it does tend to be a bit hit 
> and miss, (though it's a lot stabler since you came on board Andreas :))
>
> Is there a place for serious discussion on the future stability of this
> product and ways we can help improve it?  Or am I barking up the wrong
> tree here?

I am not sure where the best discussion for this should be, but given that 
it was brought up here, I really felt the need to speak up about it as 
well.

Thanks,

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