Felix Miata wrote:
On 2008/12/24 07:22 (GMT-0500) James Knott composed:
If things don't improve, 11.1 may be the one distro I skip.
9.1 was first 2.6 release, hardly a good release. 10.1 had a butchered package management system, definitely not a good release. 11.1? I'm not sure I've seen a clearly major guffaw, but there sure seems to be a lot of minors and near majors: KDE4 still isn't anywhere near as useful as KDE3. Wireless problems. Partitioner usability problems. RAID problems. Chopped off non-resizable columns in YaST2. Failure to boot. DVD access problems. Horrible Intel video performance. What did I miss?
Novell should have stuck to an 8-9 month release plan and let 11.1 out Feb or March. I'm thinking my 10.2 replacement box may need to get 11.0 instead of 11.1. I need to decide soon. 11.0 could get done today instead of waiting for the retail 11.1 to arrive.
I just did a quick review of my favorite releases. Curiously, the best fall into the .0 or .3 category. From 8.0 Pro on through 10.3 and 11.0 all the best have been .0 or .3. (Not to slight 8.2 or 10.2, both very solid performers) You would think that the .0 releases would be less favorite given all the excuses prior to 11.1 with "there are a lot of new things in a .0 release", "don't expect too much" blather, blather.. But just looking back at the past two 10.0 and 11.0, both were fabulous. History isn't too kind to the .1 releases. So much so that I never loaded 10.1. From my experience thus far, it would appear we, as always, fail to learn from our mistakes which makes history bound to repeat itself over, and over again. Better hope Santa brought you a lump of coal instead. It will warm you for a while with much less stress and headache... Although 11.1 did allow me to reach a new milestone. I passed the 50 bug report filed mark and I'm presently at 55 and counting. So 11.1 did have a contribution to make ;-) -- 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