On Saturday 27 April 2002 17:09, Keith Winston wrote:
On Sat, Apr 27, 2002 at 01:13:01PM -0400, Paul W. Abrahams wrote:
Now that 8.0 is out and people are getting some experience with it, I'm wondering if it pays to wait for version 8.1 rather than live on the "bleeding edge". I've usually found that the ".0" version of any product is much less stable than the next one. With all the changes, particularly to KDE, I'm worried about the stability of 8.0. (If I don't get 8.0 I'll certainly get 8.1, so SuSE will sell me a copy in any case.)
Well, my experience with 8.0 so far has been positive overall. I haven't had any issues with KDE3 and anti-aliasing seems improved, as well as program start times. There are many updated packages compared to 7.3, but you can always get up to date with YaST on 7.3. The change from rc.config to /etc/sysconfig was a huge change, but the only thing that seems truly broken is the PCMCIA/hotplug system, particularly with wireless cards and multiple encryption keys. It is not something that is going to affect too many people, but it did me :( I think most users will be happy with 8.0.
Best Regards, Keith ====================== Keith, I don't think happy is the word to use, because I think most users will be estatic with 8.0! Everything is really well done and doing a fresh install keeps everything happy! The only thing I am wanting that I haven't seen yet is the midi? I guess alsa 0.9 still has no support there with the programs available. Hopefully that will happen soon too. Overall, SuSE 8.0 is a winner!
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