Is it my imagination, or is the 6.4 SuSE distro a pretty poor one as far as quality and beta testing is concerned?
Having just got 6.4, I went to the updates site to collect the patches which were relevant to me. I got 2 kernels, kpackage, kdebase, netscape, the X fixes, the Yast update, the gdb update and a few others. I left plenty behind. This involved a 40-something megabyte download - just as well I have a company connection. Most - not all, but most - of these fixes are for problems which were SuSE's fault. Shipping with a dodgy Netscape was a really stupid thing to do and just shows poor quality.
I can just see a new user buying 6.4, watching Netscape et al fall over, seeing that the fixes will take a day on the phone to download, then going off and buying Red Hat.
-- I would concur with SuSE 6.4 being the poorest so far. Of course once all the
On 05-May-00 Derek Fountain wrote:
patches are applied the resultant is up to spec. But it shipped too early.
After this one, I'm seriously thinking of switching to something Debian based
(Stormix?) the next time I do any major updates to my system.
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Arlen Carlson