Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (3397 mails)

[Preston Crawford <me@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, 2005-04-27 at 22:07 -0400, Allen wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 27, 2005 at 12:14:46PM -0700, Preston Crawford wrote:
> > 
> > 
> > On Wed, 27 Apr 2005, Kevanf1 wrote:
> > 
> > > Sorry Mike but I think his problems started with a YOU update not an
> > > upgrade.  YOU updates should really be stable.
> > 
> > Indeed. This is what happened. And they should be stable.
> > 
> > Preston
> 
> Before this gets out of hand:
> 
> Features, hardware support, and stability, are three things and none of
> them are related. If you want features to make it rival Windows, don't
> expect stability. If you want good hardware support, same thing, new
> hardwre can't work unless it isn't tested as much. If you spend all the
> time testing for bugs it doesn't get released.
> 
> SUSE is the only distro onn earth that I've ever seen mix these all
> together without being unstable.
> 
> Look at the most stable OSs in the World:
> 
> BSD
> 
> Solaris
> 
> AIX
> 
> Slackware
> 
> Now when is the last time you saw any of those have flashy new features?
> 
> SUSE can easily stay up, I've never had it crash and I use FTP, HTTP, and a
> million things on it and the box isn't even near the RAM it should have. It
> doesn't crash.
> 
> 
> 
> Firefox is a flash new browser, if you want stability instead, use Netcat.

Oh please. 

#1 - This isn't the first time YOU has broken something recently. I had
it break a kernel on my once recently because the mirror was bad.
Ridiculous.

#2 - Firefox is a pretty basic piece of software. I don't see why they
shouldn't test it before releasing it. I've been using Linux solely as a
home OS for over 4 years and have rarely if ever had a problem with the
web browser. Not on SuSE, at least.

Preston