On Wed, 2009-11-11 at 11:04 -0800, John Andersen wrote:
On 11/11/2009 12:11 AM, Basil Chupin wrote:
On 12/11/09 15:55, Fred A. Miller wrote:
11.2 on 2 test boxen, one a Dell laptop with Intel duel-core Centrino and 2G RAM and an HP desktop with a dual-core Opteron and 4G of RAM, are FASTER running with openSUSE 11.2 and KDE than Ubuntu 9.10. This I consider an important feat. Yast has even more ability than in 11.1. Anyone who's used Yast is hard pressed to want to leave it. ;) I have an idea that 11.2 will be the distro. all others are measured by. I cannot disagree with this. But what I fear most right now is that the wrong decisions will be made to keep pushing the "bleeding edge" rather than consolidating and getting the 'almost-show-stopper' bugs resolved. Additionally, until there is some resolution of the Long Term Support issue, the short life span of most releases means none but the hobbyist will be moving from Ubuntu, certainly not any of the OEM's releasing Linux machines. Ubuntu LucidLynx due in April will be the next LTS version.
? OpenSUSE 11.1 will not stop receiving updates when 11.2 comes out The current end-of-life for 11.1 is expected to be December 2010. It was released end-of-2009, that is ~2 years. A desktop distro of 2+ years old is pretty *(@&( stale. http://en.opensuse.org/SUSE_Linux_Lifetime
OpenSuse's LTS is still a pipe dream. http://lwn.net/Articles/350229/
This is an article that seem primarily related to an "OpenSLES" like RHEL's CentOS. But nobody, or just about nobody, runs CentOS on their desktop [Ok, I know people who do, but they certainly don't qualify as typical-end-users].
Its just pretty hard justify OpenSuse on Aunt Nellie's machine when you know you will have to do it all over in 18 months.
"do it all over"? My experiences with 10.3, 11.0, 11.1 haven't involved much doing-it-over. Now with zypper dup I expect the 'upgrade' to pretty much be a big-batch-of-updates. -- openSUSE http://www.opensuse.org/en/ Linux for human beings who need to get things done. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org