On Monday 21 November 2011 20:41:59 Greg Freemyer wrote:
On Mon, Nov 21, 2011 at 3:22 PM, C
wrote: Oh, and considering openSUSE 12.1 as "officially dead" is a real shame. It has a few teething pains, but it's a darned good release - give it another week for the gurus to beat back the post release bugs, and then try it again... you will (hopefully) be quite surprised at just how nice this release is.... and the core of the supporters here do a great job of trying to get openSUSE out, and support it on mailing lists, forums IRC etc etc.
I totally agree.
Some people seem to think that getting a new distro on day one is the way to go. The reality with almost all software (open, commercial, whatever0 is that a new release comes with new bugs.
I have opensuse running on about 15 computers. Currently most of those are on 11.3 because it works fine and yet is still supported. More importantly there are not likely to be new bugs introduced at this point.
As we all know, I have 2 months more of 11.3 support from the release of 12.1. All of those 11.3 machines will be upgraded to 11.4. After all its been out since March and has seen most of its teething problems solved.
well 11.4 is a no go zone on this machine or the laptop when it deciedes it is going to boot it is so slow and unstable it is unuseable so 11.3 rules . This machine has to be stable it is used for the dev of several web sites backed up everytime something is changed 11.4 cant even find the backup drive i have a test drive for playing with but have to keep returning to 11.3 for useability and stability I would love to run 12.1 but the path is way to unstable right now
12.1 on the other hand came out less than 7 days ago. I have it running on exactly one computer at this point. While I hope it works well, I don't expect it to be without new release problems.
I actually had a couple major issues when I first upgraded to -RC2, but both of those were fixed with the help of either the mailing lists or bugzilla. Even better, both issues were specific to my machine and not to the general user base.
RC2 was a total no go . untill Kmail is sorted fully and i can safeley and reliably migrate my mail from this box , Hate thunderbird cant get on with it Pete -- Powered by openSUSE 11.3 (x86_64) Kernel: 2.6.34.10-0.4-desktop KDE Development Platform: 4.6.5 (4.6.5) "release 7" 23:14 up 7 days 1:33, 4 users, load average: 0.10, 0.08, 0.02 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org