"Quentin Jackson"
On the whole Opensuse / SLED topic, what are the chances of adjustment for provisioning of an equally stable opensuse distro? I love OpenSuSE but I used SLED10 extensively until it got too outdated for my hardware simply because of the awesome stability. There's a definate difference even in the pre Service Pack release between SLED and the OpenSuSE version in my opinion.
We have increased the beta phase in the last products already to some extend. But what I'm seeing is that people test very late in the game and then it's difficult to fix something. On the other hand, SLED goes to a far longer beta cycle with a larger beta program - to get it that stable ;)
So, what is the wider opensuse team doing to aim for a more stable OS?
IMHO the things the items where most help by everybody is needed are: * early testing with good bugreports in bugzilla.novell.com * help in bug triage so that the engineers can work on real bugs * fixing bugs
I'm not saying OpenSuSE is unstable, but it does tend to be a bit hit and miss, (though it's a lot stabler since you came on board Andreas :))
Is there a place for serious discussion on the future stability of this product and ways we can help improve it? Or am I barking up the wrong tree here?
opensuse-project might be better - or opensuse-factory, Andreas -- Andreas Jaeger, Director Platform / openSUSE, aj@suse.de SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, GF: Markus Rex, HRB 16746 (AG Nürnberg) Maxfeldstr. 5, 90409 Nürnberg, Germany GPG fingerprint = 93A3 365E CE47 B889 DF7F FED1 389A 563C C272 A126