On Tuesday, 30 May 2006 06:56, Hans du Plooy wrote:
Our office runs SUSE on a number of desktops, and it's constantly installed on development boxes for various purposes. No version of SUSE (since I first used 6.1) have had any serious issues, and any major show-stoppers have had prompt updates available.
Well said.
I'm running 10.1 OSS on my notebook, with some unusual hardware, I might add, and I'm completely happy with it. Yes, there are a few new things that needs some extra polish, but nothing that would prevent me from buying the box set. In fact, I have already placed my order.
Same here. My Ferrari 4006WLMi runs faster, and with far fewer hardware issues, than under 10.0. This is the finest SuSE release I have run, going back to 4.2 10 years ago.
Also, there is still the "dot zero release" fud going around. I don't see why. SUSE 9.0 had no major changes over 8.2 - in fact, I think they should have called it 8.3. 9.1, however, had a new kernel and everything that goes with it. Similarly, 8.1 switch to GCC3. 8.0 was incredibly sweet, 8.1 had a few issues with the GCC change - things not working as expected etc. but that was the situation for all distros moving to GCC3. 9.0, in my opinion was one of the sweetest releases. I have had not as single proble on any of the machines I installed it on. 9.1 was the beginning of a new era, I didn't like it's desktop performance, this was a "dot zero release" in my books (it was still truckloads better than any fedore or mdk release I tried). 9.2 was better, 9.3 was more better, 10, even with the move to GCC4, was, for me, the pinnacle of the 9 series. 10.1, I see as the "dot zero release" of this cycle, but even so, I have no issues with it.
Again, well said. I have had the same experiences, which is why I still run SuSE on numerous boxes at work (as servers and desktops), and my wife and I run it on every PC and laptop at home. Yes, at work we try new releases of Debian (and its offspring), *BSD (including the recent "desktop" offspring), Fedora, and CentOS, but, after all the testing, we continue to use SuSE: it "just works" for us.