Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (3605 mails)

[Marcus Meissner <meissner@xxxxxxx>]

On Wed, May 31, 2006 at 11:37:13AM -0400, suse@xxxxxx wrote:
> Marlier, Ian wrote:
> > 
> > You would use an OS that's been in release for two weeks in a production
> > environment?
> > 
> > While I agree that it's nice to have the latest and greatest, the desire
> > for stability generally suggests that a "waiting period" is a Good
> > Thing.  That holds whether you're talking about SuSE, SuSE-OSS, SLES,
> > Windows Server, etc etc etc.  Once the software is in release, stick it
> > on a test system, see how it works...if it doesn't work, then
> > back-burner it until the problems are fixed, and then test again.  Wash,
> > rinse, repeat :-)
> 
> Unfortunately, every release of SuSE is on a clock.  Two years until

Thats why we had to ship ... Or just do not ship the SUSE Linux 10.1
at all.


> The complaint is that the new system is quite well broken, and SuSE
> doesn't seem to much care... If you read their comments, it's all as if
> this were just a minor bug that nobody should really care about, to be
> discussed on the development lists and looked at for improvement in a
> later version...

We do care, rest assured.
 
Ciao, Marcus

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