2008/12/24 Kevin Dupuy <kevin.dupuy@opensuse.org>:
On Tue, 2008-12-23 at 22:07 -0600, Rajko M. wrote:
Now, you install in 20-30 minutes and then run all updates. With basic broadband it can take some time after half year of bugfixes.
To be fair, those updates don't take all that long now (nothing like 10.2 and 10.3 when I set a machine to update, went to dinner, when we got back it was half-way done). Plus, they install in the background, it's not like we're releasing with major desktop bugs that are extremely obvious while showing someone openSUSE (at least on the GNOME side, which I have experience with)
No it's shipping with bugs that prevent installation, or require time consuming work rounds, possibly even need to open the case. Also there's an issue, because if a release is made in September say, it won't have the latest GNOME release, and in meantime you lose all the extra feedback that could have been obtained on things like the kernel, latest KDE, OpenOffice and lots of other packages that have to be integrated. Not enough ppl will run alpha's and beta's, and some software packages, can be updated later in the cycle without knock on effects, to say server side, or the other desktop environments etc. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-project+help@opensuse.org