Adam Tauno Williams said the following on 11/22/2011 08:19 AM:
On Mon, 2011-11-21 at 16:23 -0600, Duaine Hechler wrote:
I - LOVE - Linux and I - LOVE - openSuSE although, I have to pose a question: Are the developers forcing the (I believe ?) 8 months cycle and falling down on the QA testing before the rollout ?
I don't see any evidence of a failure of QA testing.
The product seems quite fit-n-finish to me.
Not perfect, but nothing as complex as a distribution can be, there are too many permutations of configuration, etc... Almost all the issues I've had can be related to proprietary hardware or third-party / additional repositories.
The sky is not falling.
I'd go further. Compare with Microsoft. Look at the delays they had bringing out Vista and 7 and look at the number of critical post-release bugs that had to be (still are being) fixed. And they do have the resources and processes for QA. -- The most likely way for the world to be destroyed, most experts agree, is by accident. That's where we come in; we're computer professionals. We cause accidents. -- Nathaniel Borenstein -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org