You mean like the linux-kernel released with last minute changes in 9.1 that made it unusable with XFS based systems? I still have to use 9.0 if I need a rescue disk. You can't download patches in the installer if you are behind a firewall -- no proxy can be specified (that I can determine) at that time, so no patch can be applied unless it is downloaded and burnt onto a separate CD by a working system. Good thing everyone out there has multiple systems that can download and burn CD's. Heaven forbid a user having 1 system and using 9.1 update on an XFS system....nice unusable system. I also _really_ don't like the fact that a Windows update will work with _several_ previous versions, but a SuSE update can only work with the immediately previous release -- I don't want to be forced to update to an unknown quality configuration every 3-6 months when it takes 1-2 months to iron out the the kinks from the previous release. If I want to be a beta tester, I'd rather get compensated for it. Ms. L. Walsh, suse user since 7.0. Philipp Thomas wrote:
Leendert Meyer
[Sun, 14 Nov 2004 01:34:16 +0100]: Mysql 4.1 is available (I was looking forward to it),
Released at the end of October, far too late to include it in 9.2. Note that we freeze a distribution quite some time before the official release so packages released approximately less then two months before GA will in most cases not be in the distribution.
Philipp