Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (3397 mails)

[Preston Crawford <me@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, 2005-04-28 at 08:46 -0400, Bruce Marshall wrote:
> On Thursday 28 April 2005 12:53 am, Preston Crawford wrote:
> > I think most people who use SuSE value stability. I know more people off
> > this list than on this list who not only don't complain about SuSE, but
> > run old versions around their house because it just works. So I think
> > you're, once again, misrepresenting what the general SuSE user base
> > expects and wants. I expect and want stability. Not new and flashy. I
> > think most SuSE users are that way. If they wanted new and flashy they
> > could go with Fedora or another Mandriva.
> 
> 
> Go back to 9.2 then....    and go to 9.3 when they've got all the bugs worked 
> out of it.

I'm running 9.2.

> Don't expect a release to be perfect on day one unless you want them to only 
> release every 18 months or so (to test more like you want them to)
> 
> Then you'd be bitching about "how far behind SuSE is with their releases".
> 
> You can't have it both ways.

I don't want it both ways. Didn't you read what I wrote. I want
stability. That's why I use SUSE. Who said I want the latest and
greatest? I just want the patches and updates to be stable and tested.
That's been my entire point all along.

Preston