Alexey Eremenko wrote:
On Mon, Aug 25, 2008 at 1:31 PM, Cristian Rodríguez
wrote: Alexey Eremenko escribió:
Those are human certifications, I'm speaking about Hardware certification. (Think of Microsoft WLK, not MSCE !)
There is no hardware certification for openSUSE , that's a "not doable" task, but it exists for SLE.
This is quite unfortunate. But I understand the reason: Hardware certification cycle takes longer than openSUSE release cycle :)
Too bad there is no CentOS-style distro in the SUSE world :( (community+LTS)
Alexey brings up a perfectly valid point. As James recently discovered looking for apache modules for 10.0, there is no reason that the repos should be pulled for past releases and users should have to google for obscure servers still holding a copy. Even if each release was 250G in size, that is just the cost of a $50 dollar hard drive at its most basic level for the release + updates + snapshot of last build-service packages. I haven't checked, but I would wager that the total storage required for a past release + update + build-service even for x86, x86_64, ppc, etc. isn't more that 25G. That isn't (community+LTS) but it is a great improvement over the present disappearing version model for suse. The arguments against that have been offered (drive space + bandwidth) don't hold water in the days of mega drives and broadband. The bandwidth to continue offering past releases would be negligible due to the exponentially declining demand for prior releases as new releases come on line. Something logical to consider to eliminate the frustration of "I need this 10.0 package, and it's not there.." problem. Something to consider... -- David C. Rankin, J.D., P.E. Rankin Law Firm, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Street Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 Telephone: (936) 715-9333 Facsimile: (936) 715-9339 www.rankinlawfirm.com -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org