Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (720 mails)

[bb@xxxxxxxx (Bodo Bauer)]

Donnie Barnes wrote:
> 
> > SuSE 6.0 will be glibc based.  Go try redhat 5.  It is horribly broken.  I
> > used it for three weeks, and I just couldn't take anymore.  I am not slamming
> > redhat,  just saying that perhaps in being the first glibc based dist out the
> > door they released a dist that simply wasn't ready for the public.  The
> > quality of SuSE continues to impress me daily, and this after 4 months of
> > use.  I have every confidence that when SuSE 6.0 does ship, it will be a
> > better product than either of the other 2 glibc based dists that will be
> > available at that time.
> > SuSE rocks.
> 
> I'm not going to make this an OS war, but 5.0 is not horribly broken.  Yes,
> there are updates that you need, but we've got plenty of 5.0 machines
> around here pulling some heavy load with no problems.
> 
> The first public release of *any* OS with that radical of a change is
> going to have problems.  All known problems of noticeable magnitude have
> been fixed, however.
> 
> I'm sure SuSE 6.0 will be better than RH 5.0 in terms of stability.  But
> they have *us* to thank for that...whoever did it first was going to face
> some problems.  We did it and we aren't sorry for that.

Hi Donnie,

I think you are totaly right, and we are thankfull that RedHat made the
first step and relaesed a glibc based distribution. To find all the major 
and minor bugs a lot of 'real' installations have to be done and systems
have to run in real world circumstances. We all know, that sending out 
beta CDs is good, but some bugs remain still undetected until very 
experienced or very unexperienced users try to run the system. 

And I appreciate that you are on our mailing list. Are you going to be
in Chicago for the upcoming Comdex? It would be nice to meet you (and 
anybody else on this list...), I'll be at our booth for the hole 
week...

Ciao,
        BB

PS: We exspect 6.0 to be ready in mid 1998. Hopefully on Intel and 
Alpha...

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