Stephan Binner wrote:
On Tuesday 30 May 2006 17:24, Michael Nelson wrote:
to find another way (apt). SuSE then makes an unannounced change that completely breaks apt, and your attitude is as shown above.
SUSE is not responsible for third-party repositories it has no control over.
It's attitudes like yours that make the decision to dump SuSE easier.
It's your uninformed flaming which makes the decision to ignore you so easy.
Are you saying that SuSE didn't release an untested and utterly broken software management / updating system? I'm rather surprised by SuSE's attitude with 10.1. There are serious problems introduced, and the posture of SuSE posters to this list has been to either ignore it, or pretend it's a non-issue. Do you understand that SuSE 10.1 is supposed to be release software and not an RC? The ZenWorks updater clearly wasn't ready. From what I've read, it wasn't even included in the 10.1RC's. Software Updates are one of the most critical areas of a distro and an issue that really differentiates many distros. 10.1 completely dropped the ball on this one, and SuSE hasn't addressed this beyond releasing a beta update that seems to only do the bare minimum of providing functionality. It still takes far more resources, completely sucking up the machine for up to several minutes every time it checks for updates, from what I've read. What is SuSE doing? What are you guys thinking? What's the rationale behind all these changes? I'm not seeing how this is better than the previous version, am I missing something? Is there anything you can give me that might provide some hope for the future? The cynical side of me is pointing to the $130 / seat price tag of the full version of ZenWorks as where Novell wants this to end up. I don't want that to be the case, but I've heard nothing that contradicts it.