On Mon, Dec 04, 2006 at 08:15:56PM +0100, Grozdan Nikolov wrote:
On Monday 04 December 2006 20:01, Henne Vogelsang wrote:
Hi,
On Monday, December 04, 2006 at 19:02:49, Grozdan Nikolov wrote:
We are already at openSUSE 10.x, and after a few years we could reach openSUSE 14 or 15, this just sounds a little odd to me.
Why?
I don't know, it just sounds odd to me, and none of the other distros have such a high release number. I also think that by doing a "year release number" like 2007.1 or 2007.2 will point out to new comers to Linux with what version they are dealing, like from which year the version they are using is.
Also it would be good, IMO, that SUSE releases only once a year. I don't know if this is possible and if Novell has something to say about it, but by releasing only once a year we could have a far more stable, well tested, less bug prone, releases. From what I read on various SUSE forums, that is also what the community wants. Most of them are not very happy with the 6 months release cycle SUSE has. They say, that the SUSE team rushes things too much and produces less stable/more bug prone releases (10.1 with its broken package management anyone?) and tries to patch them after the new release. They, and I'm one of them, also claim that SUSE's quality testing has dropped very low. Also, most SUSE users want to use their system a little longer before upgrading to a newer release.
The release cycle has changed to 8 months already. 10.1 had in stability due to hurried development of a new feature _past_ beta deadline... (due to enterprise version interlock). You will find 10.2 much more stable. Ciao, Marcus --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-project+help@opensuse.org