On Monday 13 July 2009 06:06:15 pm David C. Rankin wrote:
On Friday 10 July 2009 06:47:42 pm Peter Nikolic wrote:
I have used Opensuse now for some years since the days of 5.3 in fact and Linux in general well before that since the days of the Early 0.9 kernels all floppy distro no X i also ran Slackware and Red Hat and tested a few more along the way so i know a thing or two about Linux i have even brewed up my own distro at one time .
It has to be said now after attempting to get 11.2 MS2 and 11.2 MS3 to play the game the standards of releases has fallen to a new all time low how on earth have you got the front to call these releases anything other than Alpha at best .
<snip> > > Pete . > >
Son-of-a-bitch!
You took the words right out of my mouth :p
List, I apologize, my comment was off-color. I do however agree with much of what Pete said. The value in such a post is to make the developers stop and ask themselves "Why would somebody write such a post?" It should be apparent. Pete isn't the only one frustrated with the "readiness" of the openSuSE releases at the time the DVDs are pressed. We all know there are growing pains involved with distributions purchased by corporate parents and in implementation of new desktops, but a candid look at where we are with openSuSE -- the users have had more than their fair share. I don't know what change is needed, but I do know there needs to be a commitment to putting out releases that you can pop in the tray and have work without gigabyte updates required in the first 30 days. Hopefully some of the decision makers in Novell read this list and will take notice of the areas that need improvement as pointed out in the post. It is an opportunity for improvement. We have gone from looking forward to new openSuSE releases to "Well lets let the release get a month or so of use on it so we can see how this one pans out." It doesn't take too many of those before you shoot yourself in the foot and cause boxed sales to drop-off. -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. Rankin Law Firm, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Street Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 Telephone: (936) 715-9333 Facsimile: (936) 715-9339 www.rankinlawfirm.com -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org