On Saturday 02 September 2006 22:23, Paul Abrahams wrote:
Looking at posts here, it appears that people are having more problems with 10.1 than with 10.0; it looks like 10.1 has introduced a number of changes that broke things that were working in 10.0. So which one should I install?
IMO the only major hiccups with 10.1 belong to the online update tools. Aside from that i would take 10.1 over 10.0. There isn't a lot of visible difference between 10.0 and 10.1, so if rock-solid stability is your thing, as opposed to having a newer version of gcc and KDE, 10.0 is a good bet.
Linux releases seem to be like wine vintages; different vintages of the same product can vary greatly in quality, and newer isn't necessarily better.
As a general rule Suse has improved with age. i remember two releases which upset me (10.1 and one of the 9.x series where i wanted to play music files but was offline for 2 months while waiting for my provider to get me hooked up), but it's also normally got enough improvements to make any minor annoyances worth overlooking. (No, i'm not saying that the online update problems in 10.1 are minor.) -- ----- stephan@s11n.net http://s11n.net "...pleasure is a grace and is not obedient to the commands of the will." -- Alan W. Watts