Hi, On Tue, 1 Aug 2000, Derek Fountain wrote:
The timing does seem odd, to the point of silly. The press release says the new distro will be available at the end of August. Hmmm. That's one week before KDE2 is due for release.
I am sorry, but do you expect us to put it on the CDs without any previous testing and integration? The release date you see is the date the boxes (hopefully) hit the stores. However, there is a *lot* of stuff happening the months before that - beta testing being one of the most important things. We simply cannot say "oh, let's add a new kernel/KDE" two days before the final mastering date. You never know, what problems will surface during the testing phase. This is why have to make a package freeze at some point.
The 2.4 kernel will probably be ready a month or two later.
That's what everybody hopes, but will it really happen? But even though the 2.4 kernel *may* be available at this time: have you ever experienced a x.x.0 kernel to be fully stable? Even 2.2.16 had a lot of problems - our kernel is more a 2.2.17pre than a 2.2.16. It's unbelievable, how much stuff had to be fixed and added.
Does this mean the next version, a "minor" upgrade to 7.1, will contain a completely new kernel, with new user space tools, plus a whole new desktop?
AFAIK, this has not been decided yet.
I guess SuSE know what they're doing, but it doesn't make much sense to me...
Well, this versioning scheme was made up, when having KDE2 and a 2.4 kernel still looked like a realistic plan. But we cannot do much about the delay of KDE2 or the kernel and delaying our release for an unknown amount of time is not an option. However, I still think that the new features (e.g. XFree86 4.0) and mainly the split of the product validate the jump to 7.0, even though the changes are not as impressive as everybody hoped. Bye, LenZ -- ------------------------------------------------------------------ Lenz Grimmer SuSE GmbH mailto:grimmer@suse.de Schanzaeckerstr. 10 http://www.suse.de/~grimmer/ 90443 Nuernberg, Germany With foxes we must play the fox. -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe@suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/support/faq