On Monday 13 June 2005 21:02, OldSarge wrote:
To Mr. Columbo: So what is wrong with the quote?
Hi John, I think Columbo was saying live as you preach Users have expectations, and it's only right that they should voice their concerns and requests for future features. But shouting "boycott" is just confrontational. If you have issues, then by all means bring them out, but if you just send a mail screaming and ranting, people will just take it as a troll and either get upset or simply ignore it. Politeness pays The latest version of suse pro contains the latest versions of the software packages (with a few exceptions). And the bleeding edge will almost always have problems. It is a tradeoff. Do you want the latest and greatest, or do you want stability. The two are almost always mutually exclusive. They don't have to be, but I dare you to show me any software on any OS where it isn't true. If you want stability, you have to stay a few releases behind the bleeding edge. Use the versions that have been out long enough to have the kinks worked out. It's the way software works everywhere. It is also the major idea behind products such as SLES (and RHES, and Debian Stable, and...) Also note that you have something like two years to get "full use" out of the version you have. No one is forcing you to upgrade. I do it because I like to get the new features, but I am fully prepared for the fact that the ride can be a little bumpy at times. But with something like 3000+ packages in the distro, running on god knows how many hardware combinations, I think the shock absorbers are working pretty well.