2009/1/4 James Tremblay aka SLEducator <fxrsliberty@opensuse.us>:
Rob OpenSuSE wrote:
2009/1/1 James Tremblay aka SLEducator <fxrsliberty@opensuse.us>:
Therefore, I'm presuming it'll always be better to make a stability release 11.1.1 (in effect) which is 11.1 done acceptably right for most users. It sucks if the install ISO's don't get updated, leaving many boxes with boot problems.
I'm confused , it's sounds to me that you are advocating for all users to remain on the same release platforms\schedule. If they choose to avoid the "dev" levels they would have to know which is which.
No, they'd just install OS 11, OS 12, OS 13 whatever. There could be 1 major version increase per year, with an initial version that gets "improved" as projects like KDE & GNOME are integrated. Getting a wider user base for the 'core', than the current alpha & beta releases do.
Maybe I need to be clearer, If the system was that "11 boxed" (aka SLE 12) and openSUSE12.0 where the same ISO (with branding and repo changes)and If I wanted to test, I could install with the 12 iso which had "factory-update" as a repo , then 12.1 could be an update\add-on\upgrade, the same for 12.2, etc, at whatever schedule. "Factory" could be the "devs" repo and provide 12.0.x, etc , until 12.1. I'm suggesting three layers of community; 1 dev, 1 tester , 1 "Joe Plumber". Joe, doesn't have to think much , he goes straight for "boxed" and can stay there until "13 boxed"(or "12 boxed" if he really wants an upgrade), otherwise grab 12.x iso and work with us.
The problem is that the quality of the current openSUSE release is too poor, it's more a large beta test. Just look around at the issues, with 11.1 that are commonly occuring. So unless there's a change, to implement a strategy to get more feedback earlier, get kernel driver issues sorted, and fixes into upstream codebases, I cannot see how quality will improve. At one time, there was a big quality advantage with Linux distro's, over a widely used commercial OS, right now that just is not there. Things that used to work don't.
if 11 boxed\SLE12\openSUSE 12 shared all the same code, SLE could have GNUCash indefinitely by having the OBS build SLE packages by default and then make them available in a subscription repo like the NLD9 stuff was or at opensuse so that Novell wouldn't have to support them.
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