On 05/01/2013 01:42 PM, Christian Boltz pecked at the keyboard and wrote:
Hello,
Am Dienstag, 30. April 2013 schrieb Ken Schneider - openSUSE:
openSUSE a.k.a. SuSE used to be one of the most stable distros available. Of late many apps have been forced on the users that were *clearly* pre-alpha. I don't remember the releases but the first major fuckup was zypper (or it's backend) that clearly was forced out before it was ready.
Now you are bashing the wrong target ;-)
You forgot ZENworks / ZMD which was pushed into SUSE Linux[1] 10.1. _That_ was pre-alpha, which resulted in 10.1 being the only release with 9 (!) betas and even a "10.1 Remastered" release.
Yes, my memory is not so good lately. :-) I was trying to think of the bastard CLI update program that was forced into the distro by Novell and needed numerous updates itself in the first few weeks of release.
IMHO even /bin/true was more useful than ZMD ;-) which also means zypper was a big improvement. I agree that the first zypper versions were far from perfect, but they were much better than ZMD (and therefore an improvement).
I agree after having been reminded of ZMD.
I commiserate with the poor soul that still has to maintain ZMD for the SLE10 [2] customers...
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