On Tuesday 03 November 2009 10:16:38 pm Mike McMullin wrote:
You mean, similar to many peoples experience with early adoption of 11.1 - Iost not one, but two hard drives due to low level corruption. I left to try other distributions, including Kubuntu, Knoppix, and Mandriva. Settled on Mandriva until it became painfully apparent that their repositories became hopelessly divergent from one to the other. I'm back with OpenSuSE, which seems to be a bit more stable. And the fact that, by following the dev blogs, I became aware that the release cycle was being extended to every 9 months rather than every 6 months. I'm "hoping" that 11.2 will be more stable and polished, otherwise it's back to hunting for another distro - and I've been using SuSE since 7.1 (2.4 kernel).
I feared this when Novell bought out SuSE, pushing the Gnome desktop over KDE despite repeated angst against this and other advents made me worry. Let's hope the quality that has been a hallmark of SuSE returns (and no I don't expect perfection, just an OS that won't destroy hard drives and fail at the most inopportune times). YMMV
It doesn't matter which desktop you use (I use both), there were definite problems with 11.1, so bad in fact that I turned my laptop over 9.04, with the ability to endure kernel updates without re-compiling video and wireless drivers. I can say only that an early upgrade to 9.10 on one system has sorted itself out, but now I have conflicts with mythtv between my main system (11.1) and it.
Ya, another problem that drove me nuts in 11.1 was the flawed grub installation and setup, which I often wonder wasn't the other reason for a seriously kludged HDD (outside of the ReiserFS problems). I've tried Ubuntu 9.04, but found the config programs unconfortable (gotten a tad spoiled with YaST). I also didn't like having to hunt for the XAuth and other various files to allow me to log into the Root acct. I frustrated me to no end to feel I had to leave a distribution I've used for over a decade and hunt for some alternative - though on the upside I had an opportunity to check out other distributions, and of course dealt with the "grass is always greener" syndrome. Frankly, I'm cautiously optimistic about 11.2! Let's hope that the extra 3 months in the new dev cycle will pay off the way many hope it will <fingers crossed>. Cheers, Curtis. -- BEWARE! Spammers will be shot, survivors will be shot again! Those throw objects at the alligators will be asked to retrieve them! -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org