On Friday 08 October 2004 07:54, Jim Sabatke wrote:
John Andersen wrote:
On Thursday 07 October 2004 02:09 am, Fergus Wilde wrote:
Just skip a release or two - you're not going to lose out on anything big unless there's something highly specific you need to get running that's only covered in a later version. As ever, though, I'll be splashing out the moolah on 9.2 as soon as I get the chance to order it ...
Actually, the .2 releases have proven to be the best. Skip .0 and.1 if you will, but always snap up .2.
I always look at the list volumes around release time. It usually is very high with X.0, less with X.1, etc. So I generally agree. I think this time the 9.1 seemed more problemetic than 9.0, probably due to the Novel buyout.
I'm more inclined to believe it was the 2.6 kernel than the buyout, there is just so much to get right that it's impossible to make a new kernel version as glitch-proof as one that has been refined for years. So far, I've been rather heartened that the buyout seems not to have changed the user's experience of SuSE much if at all, though obviously I can't hazard a guess at what it's like to work there now. Cheers Fergus
This is usually not the case though, and have been burned, and had more hours burned with X.0 releases of big software like Oracle and various UNIX operating systems.
Jim
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