Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (3120 mails)

[Dragan Stancevic <visitor@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi,

I am not trying to start a flame war or anything. I just want to know if other 
people had the same experience with SuSE8.1 as I did.

I've been using SuSE since 4.xx and I must admit that I have never had so many 
problems as I did with 8.1.

It's visually a stunning distribution and the package management/dependencies 
are great with "YOU". They did a great job with the user friendly management 
tools. But I have spent about a month fixing things on my ThinkPad after I 
switched from 8.0 to 8.1. My workstation that I tried installing on is still 
waiting for me to fix it, it wouldn't boot after Installing, not to mention 
that it wouldn't even format the disks in the first place.

Things that are not working for me on 8.1 but have worked on 8.0:
PCMCIA: Flash cards (haven't tried other's)
1GB of memory: Wouldn't install on my laptop (UP) until I manually set mem to 
less than 1GB
DAC960: My workstation(SMP) with a Mylex 1164 raid card wont boot after 
install
VMWare: Segfaults and kernel oopses after loading a OS in the virtual machine
Mathematica 4.2: It starts up but any complicated calculation will make the 
system go to lala land.


There are other things but those are major ones for me that *have* worked 
under 8.0 just fine. 

Is it just my experience that 8.1 is the most broken SuSE distro ever? Due to 
so many things not working for me I think it took me a few weeks to vent out 
my fury after upgrading. Oh, the things I thought about doing with the 8.1 
Box. Is it just me or have others had similar problems?

Thanks.

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