Quoting John Andersen
I have never EVER had a linux distro that did not have SOME problems. Never. And I installed several releases of all the well known ones before settling in SuSE.
Come to think of it, I can't recall any OS that did not have SOME PROBLEMS and that includes several generations of Mainframe big iron, PCs, Mini Computers and even HP Pocket Claculators
Should Tripwire Fail? - No. What can you do about it? - Well it IS Open source... Is NOVELL to blame as you imply? - Probably not, 9.0 was in the box well before that deal went down. Can SuSE afford to exhaustivly test every application? - Get real. Is Tripwire mainstream that they should have tested it? - Probably.
OK, I was going to let this drop, but it seems too many people are incapable of reading and/or comprehension. The initial problem of Tripwire working in 9.0 was annoying, but not the real issue. The QA problem came later when they issued a security update to tripwire that broke tripwire AGAIN! In fact, it was broken in precisely the same manner as the initial release. Here's the sequence of events: 1) SuSE 9.0 is released with broken tripwire. 2) Months later, fixed tripwire is released. 3) Security problem is found in tripwire. 4) SuSE releases security patch that segfaults tripwire on all platforms. It's #4 that's the real shoddy part. It happened after the Novell acquisition of SuSE. And this is just one problem amongst many with the security updates coming from SuSE in recent months. That is the cause of the initial complaint. Once again, for those incapable of counting past two, the issue wasn't the initial borked tripwire, but the security update that RE-BORKED tripwire! Is that clear enough? Now, before the fanboys declare me anti-suse, I'm not asking for perfection. I'm just asking for communication. The SuSE people need to have better communication with us. When the response to these legitimate issues is a market-speak press release, there's something terribly wrong going on. Fortunately, SuSE seems to at least initially be listening, judging by the response which, while a bit vulgar, was human. Hopefully, such communication will continue. Community thrives on communication. If SuSE treats us like a community, I for one will do everything I can to pitch in. Let's see if SuSE is willing to step up to the plate.