On Sun, 2006-05-28 at 19:18 -0700, Lew Wolfgang wrote:
As a loyal SuSE advocate/user since 5.1, and having purchased at least a half-dozen of every boxed set of every release since then, I'm looking at the dialog here for 10.1 and am wondering if I should sit this one out.
With every version of SUSE there's a whole bunch of people going "oh this is the worst release ever <insert various arguments to explain>" 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. 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. 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. Get it, try it, ignore what everyone tells you and see for yourself. Hans
I don't have enough time to wrestle with a broken distro. What do folks think? Is the boxed set the same as the iso? I tried installing the iso on a dual-Athlon last Thursday and had it totally wedge. I'm sure that in this case it's a hardware problem, but before it went down for the count I noticed that "Update" didn't have anything to update.
Also, I saw apt mentioned here. Does this "ZenWorks" replace the old Yast update method? How would one use apt instead of the included update method?
Thanks for your input, Lew Wolfgang