Version x.0 version ./. x.01 or x.1 version
It is my experience with new versions (x.0), and this includes Linux, that they normally contain a fair amount of bugs. May I remind you of version 8.0 which provoked quite a number of complaints until things were put right in the following ones, especially in v. 8.2. In anybody's experience, is this also valid for version 9.0?? I carefully looked at the correspondence in this forum and there seems to be little complaints, except that the one or other program gives some trouble. I would like to receive your opinion. I am new to Linux and after having suffered enough from Windows incl. XP I have to decide either to buy now or better wait until bugs, -- if there are any, -- will have been eliminated. Regards, hwm
Hi hwm,
It is my experience with new versions (x.0), and this includes Linux, that they normally contain a fair amount of bugs.
... I observed the same thing as you did but SuSE 9.0 seems to be the positive exception to the rule. The 9.0 is the first SuSE release which I can actually recommend. All prior versions, especially the 8.x versions (including 8.0) have led to much trouble here. SuSE 9 runs fine here with one exception. I can't get that darn parallel port to work. :-( -- cul8er, Paul paul.foerster@gmx.net
hwm@onetel.net.uk wrote:
It is my experience with new versions (x.0), and this includes Linux, that they normally contain a fair amount of bugs. May I remind you of version 8.0 which provoked quite a number of complaints until things were put right in the following ones, especially in v. 8.2.
In anybody's experience, is this also valid for version 9.0??
I carefully looked at the correspondence in this forum and there seems to be little complaints, except that the one or other program gives some trouble.
I would like to receive your opinion.
I am new to Linux and after having suffered enough from Windows incl. XP I have to decide either to buy now or better wait until bugs, -- if there are any, -- will have been eliminated.
Regards, hwm
You will always have bugs, in all versions of all complex software. The only serious problem I remember having with 8.2 was with the scpm (? - suse configuration manager) software. I fixed that in the end by leaving the 8.1 version in. I have had several problems with 9.0, but there are several new things there that I like. scpm has undergone a major upgrade with 9.0 and has stopped making some very annoying assumptions. One extremely nasty problem which actually led to partition corruption was a system hang when I went into X11. Something to do with mtrr and a nVidea (?) video-card. My personal feeling is: - if you have 8.2 (or 8.1) and it works for you, leave it. - if you do not have linux at all, try 9.0. - be careful with system-modifications - especially with the keyboard drivers (!), 9.0 has a rather fragile feel to me. SuSE Linux is a pretty complex product which tries to satisfy all needs. Sometimes I wish it were simpler. My Laptop is actually back to running 7.1 because that is the last version with a 2.2 kernel and the versions with 2.4 kernels tend to freeze on me (keyboard+mouse dead, connecting via ssh works fine). For a comparison, Win95 and Win98 would not even install on the laptop :-) Your mileage will almost certainly vary. -- opinions personal, facts suspect. http://home.arcor.de/36bit/samba.html
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