Greg Thomas wrote:
On Sat, 9 Sep 2000, Purple Shirt wrote:
Just another reason for SuSE to put the fucking thing on ftp. its annoying to have to wait for 2 months+ and listen to 7.0 talk without a product in the hand.
Why get all uptight about it? It's their policy to not put it up on ftp for awhile. Plus I've yet to see anything worth upgrading from an updated 6.4 anyway.
Greg
a) some of us haven't had the best of luck w/ 6.4, or the updates for it, and would like to try our chances w/ the next version. It's gamble, but what the heck. b) It is awfully annoying to have to wait so darned long. Especially since I'd guess most of us in the U.S. are accustomed to getting things _first_, and everyone else having to wait ;) c) It's a little discouraging to install the software off of 6 CD's, or one dvd, and then turn around and have to download a pile of patches and upgrades, especially when you have a slow line. I guess this does have a positive side -- The german users get the pleasure of finding the more glaring quirks the hard way first. d) Correct me if I'm wrong, but does any other distro wait so long to put a version up on ftp? Or even close? Usually, I thought, the point of the ftp and iso's is to be able to sample and decide if you want to upgrade, or pay for the support and commercial apps, or whatever. W/ SuSE's ftp schedule, half the packages (not literally, thank god) in the distro are either 1) out of date, or 2) have security patches by the time you can actually get an ftp install or iso image to test drive. Plus you are usually close to halfways to the _next_ release. Which kinda defeats the purpose. I do agree that yes, it is SuSE's right to decide when to put things up for ftp. But when you add up the time lag to get the distro released in the states, and the time after _that_ before the ftp appears, the delay starts to approach being unreasonable, IMHO. Monte P.S. FWIW, I'm tired of waiting. I'll probably fire up wget this weekend and just start downloading the patches for 7.0 now, so I don't get too far behind. Hope not to many of them are language specific. -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe@suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/support/faq