On Tuesday 09 December 2008 00:56:48 Phil Savoie wrote:
[...snip...] I don't mind change, but God in Heaven, let's wait until it works first shall we? I sure hope the PHB's at opensuse has heard the backlash and have stopped this notion of pushing unfinished and broken crap down the pipe all for the sake of change.
Phil
Up until now I've stayed well away from this debate but I think now that it is worth mentioning this; openSUSE is to SLED/SLES what Fedora is to RHEL i.e. a community based, "almost bleeding-edge" distro aimed with community development involvement aimed at bedding down and stabilising newer technologies prior to their incorporation in SLES/SLED. IMHO it isn't intended to be the most stable, supported distro out there (even though it is one of the better ones). If you want stability and long release cycles with slow-and-steady change, use Debian or one of the commercially supported distros. On the other hand, if you want to contribute in a meaningful way by using (and testing) the latest features and technologies and feeding back info to the developers (via bug reports) and thus assist in making the new features usable, useful and stable, then use one of the community based distros that focus on that stuff. If you just want to use it, don't install the new stuff - stick with what you know and love and let others do the work of improving the new stuff. FOSS is about *choice*. We should all make our own choices about how we use our hardware and software and *respect the choices of others also*. So - if you don't like KDE4, don't use it. Just don't criticise others who do use it and contribute to making it better. And don't criticise those who do the work of compiling the distro and getting it out there, just because they give people the choice to contribute to developing and testing the bleeding edge stuff. OK, so you might not like the way they provide that choice; in that case, provide calm, rational and appropriately thought out constructive criticism in the appropriate forums (e.g. bugzilla or the factory mailing list). Just don't let it descend into personal grudges, ranting and philosophical rhetoric. There - I've got that off my chest. Back to work now. Regards all, Rodney. -- =================================================== Rodney Baker VK5ZTV rodney.baker@iinet.net.au ===================================================