On Mon, Dec 02, 2002 at 09:58:11AM -0800, Alex Daniloff wrote: : Hello, : Let me deposit my 0.02 c to this SuSE8.1 broken discussion. : I don't have any problems with SuSE8.1 or its earliest versions : 'cause I always download and custom compile plain kernels from : kernel.org with all needed alsa modules from alsa-project.org. : I also download as tar balls and compile most of important application : I'm working with. : My point is to install just a plain SuSE distro with minimum critical : packages and install rest of needed packages manually from the : sources. : It takes a little bit time and efforts, but in the end I'm getting : rock solid OS without further head breaking and hair pulling. : It's physically impossible for SuSE team to evaluate and inspect all : included packages due to short periods between OS releases. : And when the release date has come the most of the packages get : outdated anyway. Doesn't all this effort sort of defeat the purpose of a distribution? I mean, I thought that's exactly what we were buying with our hard-earned cash... : Who knows when SuSE 8.2 is due to come? If they follow the historical ~6 month release cycle, then it would be March of next year. --Jerry Open-Source software isn't a matter of life or death... ...It's much more important than that!