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On Mon, Oct 15, 2001 at 09:44:43PM -0500, Timothy R. Butler wrote:
Mmm. Is it not time this discussion came to a graceful end ? One of the posters yesterday quoted verbatim the README on this topic from the Suse FTP site. SuSE have a policy on this, and I personally have problems with it as well...however this discussion crops up every few months and changes nothing. Comparisons with Debian and Slackware are irrelevant. Do note the fact the they are ".org", not commercial organisations Suse is selling a packaged distribution , and one of far superior capabilities than it's main rival in this field (Redhat). I am sure they are aware that their style is not always very popular with their fans. My problems with Suse are that they clearly bring out too many releases a year amd inadequately test their upgrades. That is the main reason I would buy and install a distribution in full. I keep daily backups of all critical files, so I can usually reproduce the status-quo if (and in the case of 7.3 this is a very big if) I decide I need a newer version. Personally I am more interested in updated kernels, than in updated distributions. Linux still has a way to go...it is just as well the recent 2.4.11 fiasco was nipped in the bud as quickly as it was (now that is what you get with the Open Source world, a very quick reaction). -- Regards Cliff