Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (3506 mails)

[stephan beal <stephan@xxxxxxxx>]

On Saturday 02 September 2006 22:23, Paul Abrahams wrote:
> Looking at posts here, it appears that people are having more
> problems with 10.1 than with 10.0; it looks like 10.1 has introduced
> a number of changes that broke things that were working in 10.0.   So
> which one should I install?

IMO the only major hiccups with 10.1 belong to the online update tools. 
Aside from that i would take 10.1 over 10.0. There isn't a lot of 
visible difference between 10.0 and 10.1, so if rock-solid stability is 
your thing, as opposed to having a newer version of gcc and KDE, 10.0 
is a good bet.

> Linux releases seem to be like wine vintages; different vintages of
> the same product can vary greatly in quality, and newer isn't
> necessarily better.

As a general rule Suse has improved with age. i remember two releases 
which upset me (10.1 and one of the 9.x series where i wanted to play 
music files but was offline for 2 months while waiting for my provider 
to get me hooked up), but it's also normally got enough improvements to 
make any minor annoyances worth overlooking. (No, i'm not saying that 
the online update problems in 10.1 are minor.)


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