Tirsdag 23 januar 2007 09:29 skrev Silviu Marin-Caea:
Yeah it would be so fabulous if openSUSE would be stable and polished, have super new software and nice glitz, but it's damned *HARD* to achieve, technically and financially.
I don't think anyone is expecting SLED-like stability, just a little better, so that we could actually recommend and install openSUSE with our mothers and other n00bs and they won't have to suffer all those little annoyances that though small, makes it impossible for Joe Sixpack to use it. However maybe the bugs don't come from using bleeding edge software, but from lack of testing. It'd prolly be easier for the devs to see what "kinds" of bugs we have and what it would take to solve the quality problems we have.
so why do you have such a problem with SLED?
I haven't used SLED, but as I understand it's not really geared towards home users, wrt. package availability etc., and if I'm not mistaken for example kdewebdev3 is not in it (!!). That means users have to mess with 10.1 repos, and be very careful which packages to install and update and such, not exactly an easy polished experience for Joe Sixpack. But I'm hoping Novell, or others, will soon target the home user market in a serious way, I really hope there'll be a "SUSE Linux Home Desktop 11". I personally love my openSUSE, but I don't think it can be considered a viable solution for non-geek home users currently, and I think it should be. For the sake of Linux, Novell and the world in general. However I don't think we're so far off, like I stated earlier, I really think just 2-3 weeks of additional testing and a little bit of conservatism could work wonders. Martin --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-project+help@opensuse.org