` jdd wrote:
Le 16/08/2011 00:00, Steven Sroka a écrit :
One simple solution to this is to make milestone release more prominent. Like posting an something like an advertisment on opensuse.org.
the best solution, IMHO i to *use* the new distro. 12.1 is quite usable from the beginning, having much less stoppers than previous ones, due mostly to the automatic testbed.
jdd
I upgraded to 11.4, last April. I have yet to 'complete' the upgrade...due to various packages compatibility problems (samba taking the longest, but SO many packages just 'hosed' my configs -- and it was very ugly...worst upgrade ever. and I've been doing them since 6.x. It isn't just about bugs...even bash was upgraded w/incompatible features/changes. Certainly much of this isn't fault of opensuse, but seems like a general decline in caring about SW compat and reliability... that O.S. inherits much of by virtue of having a large package base. Getting this 'fixed' is a slow & hard process, as no one cares about your problems as much as you do! ;-) So jumping on the lastest SW packages just because they don't crash doesn't say diddly about whether or not my server will still being doing all it's supposed to do for my PC...(their married...server has almost no 'face' ( -- has a text interface but no gui at the console). Never got X to work there and not sure it's worth it given how little I do @ that system's console. And Win machine has almost no body -- (physical storage)...has a brains and pretty face, but needs the server to actually for everything (internet, email, the works). And server would feel ignored as who really wants to use a text console? Upshot of that -- I use and require high integration when my server is down due to an upgrade, everything is disabled. And man, when you try to run a home domain -- when things break, .. well, not good. So I would second a motion for people to take a few more deep breaths before jumping ahead to the latest and greatest incompatible update. I mean, I would **like** to be doing things with my free time, other than just maintaining my home Network... (selfish me!, but I'd like to get back to doing scans (astara @(minitokyo/animepaper)) and spend alot more time *using the computers* rather than maintain them). :-) -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help@opensuse.org