Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (1786 mails)

[Greg Freemyer <greg.freemyer@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, Nov 21, 2011 at 3:22 PM, C <smaug42@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Oh, and considering openSUSE 12.1 as "officially dead" is a real
> shame.  It has a few teething pains, but it's a darned good release -
> give it another week for the gurus to beat back the post release bugs,
> and then try it again... you will (hopefully) be quite surprised at
> just how nice this release is.... and the core of the supporters here
> do a great job of trying to get openSUSE out, and support it on
> mailing lists, forums IRC etc etc.

I totally agree.

Some people seem to think that getting a new distro on day one is the
way to go.  The reality with almost all software (open, commercial,
whatever0 is that a new release comes with new bugs.

I have opensuse running on about 15 computers.  Currently most of
those are on 11.3 because it works fine and yet is still supported.
More importantly there are not likely to be new bugs introduced at
this point.

As we all know, I have 2 months more of 11.3 support from the release
of 12.1.  All of those 11.3 machines will be upgraded to 11.4.  After
all its been out since March and has seen most of its teething
problems solved.

12.1 on the other hand came out less than 7 days ago.  I have it
running on exactly one computer at this point.  While I hope it works
well, I don't expect it to be without new release problems.

I actually had a couple major issues when I first upgraded to -RC2,
but both of those were fixed with the help of either the mailing lists
or bugzilla.  Even better, both issues were specific to my machine and
not to the general user base.

Greg
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