On Wed, 17 Sep 2008, Quentin Jackson wrote:

On the whole Opensuse / SLED topic, what are the chances of adjustment for provisioning of an equally stable opensuse distro? I love OpenSuSE but I used SLED10 extensively until it got too outdated for my hardware simply because of the awesome stability. There's a definate difference even in the pre Service Pack release between SLED and the OpenSuSE version in my opinion.

I tend to agree, but I really like having my customer's on SLED and SLES. They were previous SCO OS's and they do not like to upgrade/change very often so the SLES and SLED are really good. The problem is that SLED seems to not be updated soon enough. I tried to replace a few vista machines with SLED and was unable to because the new HW would not work with SLED. I now have them dual booting to openSUSE 11.0 and vista, but they need a longer more reliable option. I would really be hesitant putting openSUSE in the corperate offices because of the 2 year cycle. The do not like to update very often. They like their UNIX/Linux to just run and not have to deal with it.

So, what is the wider opensuse team doing to aim for a more stable OS? I'm not saying OpenSuSE is unstable, but it does tend to be a bit hit and miss, (though it's a lot stabler since you came on board Andreas :))

Is there a place for serious discussion on the future stability of this product and ways we can help improve it? Or am I barking up the wrong tree here?

I am not sure where the best discussion for this should be, but given that it was brought up here, I really felt the need to speak up about it as well. Thanks, -- Boyd Gerber ZENEZ 1042 East Fort Union #135, Midvale Utah 84047 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-testing+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-testing+help@opensuse.org