On Wednesday 14 March 2007 10:08, pelibali wrote:
On Tue, 13 Mar 2007 23:06:54 -0500
Stevens <.> wrote:
I am 2 months into Suse 10.2 and I still do not have a polished system running as well as my old Suse 9.1 that I ran for over 2 years.
No wonder that some people got stuck with "old" releases! I also kept SUSE 9.1, which I consider best even if unsupported. During the beta tests I ran into several newer releases, but they just became more robust. It also could be, that I simply don't use features others nee- ding edge-stuff are interested in, therefore all the 10.x-s got repla- ced on the spare partition I have and now have an extra SUSE 9.1 there;)
It's a shame, that on the opensuse list several of the oldie-related threads ended up with the answer "do update" :(
Pelibali
I agree. My hda drive is a bootable Suse 9.1. Problem is that I was having problem finding "new and improved" software that would run on it so I started looking at the new distros. I saw Suse 10.0 go up in flames, followed by horror stories about 10.1, then glowing reports about how much greater 10.2 was. Well, maybe in comparison to 10.0. Look, it generally is a good distro but maybe I can sum up my problems with it like this: The Suse development philosophy is very similar to the guy that won't put the toilet seat down after taking a leak. He figures that everyone should know to test first before flopping. What he doesn't take into account is human nature and he isn't showing consideration for anyone other than himself. Maybe that's a bit harsh, but you get my drift. I use graphical desktops a lot. After 20 years of systems work with various _nixes I detest more and more the inconvenience of CLI. By now the GUIs should have been perfected, but they have not. I copy dvd's and require programs like dvdshrink which has not been ported to linux so I have to run it in wine. It won't work with 10.2. Simple multimedia streams at Yahoo won't play. The default software updater is horrible. In short, I cannot hold Suse 10.2 up to the uninitiated and say, This is a great system when they all look at it and say, This sucks! Fred -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org