On Mon, 5 Jun 2006 21:45:19 -0400 Carl Hartung <suselinux@cehartung.com> wrote:
There has been a steady stream of positive feedback after the patch was released. This is precisely the point I was trying to make with the "pair" of anonymous "posters" who, in very troll-like fashion, went to great lengths to repeatedly criticize 10.1 while ignoring the progress being made. I'm very pleased with the way 10.1 has come into form and I'm particularly happy to see this steady stream of well deserved positive feedback continue!
I would agree with that based on the list feedback I've read if 10.1 had come with a warning that critical components were of alpha or perhaps early beta quality in the release. Although all new releases hit snags when they hit a wider audience, the problems with 10.1 go well beyond that. My 10.1 system is working well enough until I can replace it with another distro. I'm unwilling to risk that for further experimentation. I perceive it as being to risky. 10.1 is my first, and likely only, experience with SUSE. I'm glad things are going better for those of you with the energy to sort through the whole mess. I also wish nothing but the best for Novell/SUSE. I would like to caution you as a community not to be to self-congratulatory now that you appear to have turned a corner. 10.1 hurt the technical reputation of SUSE. In my little corner of the world I know several people who tried 10.1 as their first try with SUSE and dumped it. They will not be coming back. My impression as someone new to SUSE is that schedule is more important than quality and all a new release means is that the calender says it's time for a release. I see little evidence of a solid understanding of what it means to test something prior to release. If I wanted to download a perpetual series of betas, I'd just run Debian Testing. At this point, no doubt, a number of you are probably itching to tell me how mistaken my impressions are. You might be right, I'm just trying to let you know how things appear from the perspective of one reasonably technically proficient newcomer to SUSE. Flame away if you want. Scott K -- Check the headers for your unsubscription address For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the archives at http://lists.suse.com Please read the FAQs: suse-linux-e-faq@suse.com