Johannes Nohl wrote:
I'm afraid you're right on that, but I hope that they at least appreciate the feedback they got from us. It could sometimes be more worth than an advice of a Goldman Sachs investment banker... ;)
Good point. Finnally you could ask yourself how long there will be a community version of suse at all. Whether they don't listen to their users demands or there won't be users because they went away to another distro.
When you're not paying a single Eur for the software, your "demands" are not all that interesting to a company which has to make a payroll every week. Get this through your head... opensuse is *NOT* a charity project for Johannes Nohl and his Linux buddies -- it's a test-bed for developing SLED and SLES distributions, which happens to serve a PR purpose in a loss-leader sort of way. And no, I have *no* association with SuSE, other than as a user (and before they discontinued retail distribution, a customer).
I ask again: If I'm forced to replace opensuse on some projects to a distribution with a longer life cycle why should I keep opensuse on my desktop?
Do what you have to do. But remember, nobody is going to just give away long life cycle support, while also maintaining a hi release rate -- maintaining 5 to 10 releases simultaneously is *not* a trivial task -- it requires a significant number of man-hours.
I'm on the move, probably. I'll see what will happen in april 2008...
You get high quality stuff for free, and then complain, because the life-cycle is "only" 18 months. Do you realize how much of a complete ingrate you make yourself appear to be? Why don't you lobby for a return of OpenSuse Professional, which was not nearly as expensive as SLED OR SLES, but sales of such could finance significant longer-term support. If you want something which COSTS MONEY, then be prepared to pay for it, and quite *WHINING* that it's not being given to you IN ADDITION to a very convenient software distribution which has a value in many thousands of euros. The horse is dead; no matter how many times you kick it, it isn't going to get up and run a race.
Johannes
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