On Monday 16 May 2005 18:11, Jason Snyder wrote:
Summary: This is just way too many problems that SuSE 9.2 didn't have and it makes me a little uneasy that there are multiple globably non user friendly problems in their patches. Also there seems to be a pattern going from more broken initial release,
I agree. I've installed 9.3 to half a dozen systems now, and had some level of problems with all of them. Some are just annoyances and are relatively easy to fix, but as it stands now, even SUSE kernel is completely useless to me on this system ( it does not even initialize ). And what's with the YAST now, it seems to fail random package installs for absolutely no reason. Pressing 'retry' doesn't help, but reboot does. Weird. I've had this very same bug occurring on 3 different machines, so can't really call it unique anymore. Bugger. Each release since 9.0 seems somewhat buggier than the previous one. But on the other hand, some of the work done with 9.3 is just plain great. Once you truly get it going, it's the best release yet.
then progressively more badly broken patches afterwards. Whatever happened to regression testing or at least testing a patch to see if it works?
Hmm, haven't had these though - usually releases get steadily better with time as they patch it. Usually they get usable by the time they release the FTP version. -- // Janne