https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=408252 User jcs@piments.com added comment https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=408252#c82 Jaques Chitte <jcs@piments.com> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- CC| |jcs@piments.com --- Comment #82 from Jaques Chitte <jcs@piments.com> 2009-01-12 15:51:33 MST --- Sadly, this sort of thing has become typical since Novell took over Suse. There are managerial deadlines set for releases without QA being in place to make sure the "product" is ready to ship. I recall finding a comment with respect to opensuse 10 release that read something like: "bugs will be fixed by dec 6". Someone seems to confuses themself with the Allmighty. Bugs will be fixed when they have had enough time and developer manpower given to them. Belicose management commandments don't frighten bugs away. If management decide a release has to be out in time for Santa to deliver it they need to ensure sufficient resources are made available to finish it. I first got into Suse around 9.2/9.3 , as an everyman distro it was great. I recommended it to several friends who installed and enjoyed it. I kept a suse partition running to support them. I first had doubts about Suse when openSuse 10 came out. Despite the very slick paint job, the engine had major issues. The remaster fiacso was the first sign of bad management. Then there was mounting flash devices O_SYNC leading to early death of many USB storage devices which were nowhere near as cheap and expendable at that time. I lost interest in suse and hoped it would all sort itself out later. I am now looking for a non guru distro to recommend so I installed 11.1 , I was very, very impressed with the install process. Very polished and let me make a several mods to the standard installation without any problems. Sadly, once again, the first impression was not a lasting impression. It seems that unrealistic release deadlines are still being imposed on an under resourced project. All this PolicyKit stuff is simply incomplete and insufficiently tested. All the fancy graphics are nice but this sort of issue is a show stopper. I'm just not prepared to start hacking as soon as I have installed to get basics like this to work. Unbelievable. I'll check in again around suse 12.0 or suse 13.0 in the hope that Novell manage to finish a product before releasing it. In the meantime, good luck. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.