Peter wrote:
(The broken freeradius init script is inexcusable! It means they modified it from the previously working one AND never bothered to test it!)
These type of issues are the issues I was referring to with:
"That inevitably leads to versions released before they are
ready, containing small, but crippling bugs that causes newbies to just give
up."
Don't get me wrong, I remain a big fan of Suse. I can't through darts at
9.2 -- I haven't installed it -- yet. The original intent of my reply was
simply to raise awareness of problems I have seen following corporate
entrance into an open source project, and hoping upon hope that maybe
someone in Novell may take it to heart to avoid similar problems with Suse.
(please ignore the comma splice -- I couldn't resist)
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Peter Nixon"
On Monday 20 December 2004 22:55, Steve Kratz wrote:
Looking back at the list archives for the past two years, it looks to me like there is a pretty good jump in activity around each new release. I don't see that this time, at least not yet. Could that mean that fewer people are having problems?
I'd generally agree with that-- other than then buggy acpi kernel 9.2 shipped with that caused some headaches with my laptop, and the "Only available on the damn DVD" issues, it's been pretty rock solid for me.
Yes. I agree with you here. I have not had any stability problems with the SuSE 9.2 boxes I have built after I made them work. Everything I was complaining about is related to installation issues and broken init scripts. Once you get past these issues SuSE 9.2 is better than anything that came before it. I just hate to see these minor glitches ruin what could be an almost perfect user experience. (The broken freeradius init script is inexcusable! It means they modified it from the previously working one AND never bothered to test it!)
Anyway I have a meeting with Novell today and will make my thoughts known :-)
Cheers
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