Hi, Thomas Hertweck schrieb:
From my point of view, SUSE 10.1 users were just "abused" as cheap public beta testers for SLES. The decisions were clearly not made in favour of a stable SUSE 10.1 release, but in favour of an SLES product. And, I believe, the Novell management would do it again exactly like this. So I really have doubts whether a lesson has been learned...
I don't share this opinion. Managers are not dumb. They know that (open)SUSE is perceived as sort of a "test case" for enterprise products, and they know that poor (open)SUSE releases put the reputation of enterprise products into question. And I actually don't even share the conclusion that Novell doesn't care about (open)SUSE stability. Do you remember the endless discussions about SUSE 10.1 being shipped with "outdated" KDE and GNOME version numbers? These "outdated" releases were chosen because of stability concerns. I tend to find the discussions about SUSE 10.1 quality rather annoying. New installations will get the first and now even the second update stack during the initial installation, new user's wont even notice the most obvious problems, and the sad experiences early adopters hat cannot be undone any more. Maybe we (the users) should try to be a little bit more forgiving. And we shouldn't forget that (open)SUSE is about a lot more than just package management. E.g., is there any other free Linux offering out there with a better working Xen setup than (open)SUSE? I'm not aware of any. OpenOffice.org with VBA support? Nowhere as good as in (open)SUSE. etc... Andreas Hanke --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-help@opensuse.org