On 5/6/05, Preston Crawford
On Fri, 2005-05-06 at 23:39 +0300, Janne Karhunen wrote:
Let me first say that i'm a Linux professional, i make my living off it and have been using it since -96. So far i've been a happy camper with SUSE (for 6 years now), but now i honestly have to say that i'm very, very, VERY disappointed with the quality of the latest release. Really sad :(
If you can, go back to 9.2. I think there are far fewer problem with 9.2. At least from what I've seen on this list.
I did some soul-searching this week (publicly and privately) about whether to stick with SuSE. I downloaded and seriously considered Centos, Fedora, Ubuntu, etc.
In the end, however, I decided that with Centos or Fedora or virtually any other distro you either have to do beta testing for someone who may some day may pull the rug out from underneath you or you are stuck with a distro that may or may not be supported next week because the community isn't strong.
SuSE has neither problem. I think Novell/SuSE is here to stay and the community is strong, if at times challenging. And even if the releases head more down the Fedora path, I guess I'd rather do beta testing for Novell than for Red Hat, if that's what it comes down to. As long as they continue to distribute SuSE Pro close to how they do today.
So I would advise you to go back to 9.2. It's basically stable unless there's something in 9.3 that you need. Wait for 9.4/10 and hope they do a better job next time. That's what I'm doing.
Well, I've found that 9.3 is much better then 9.2. With 9.2 we had issue where it had a strange bug where it would take 15-25 minutes to reboot because EVERYTIME it booted the system it wanted to run reiserfsck against the 1.8T data partition.. didn't matter what settings were changed. I don't know where the final bug was.. but I loaded 9.3 on one of these same machines yesterday and it took 3 minutes 18 seconds to reboot. A marked improvement. The machines are 4x3.2Ghz machines w/ 12 SATA drives in them that are connected to a 12 port 3Ware sata card. They aren't small boxes. I don't know why some would have issue and some do not. I'm just thankful that 9.3 fixed that bug.. because some of the PHB's were talking Gentoo. I think I'd quit prior to that. :) -Ben -- "There is no need to teach that stars can fall out of the sky and land on a flat Earth in order to defend religious faith."