On Friday 23 February 2007 08:15:56 pm M Harris wrote: > On Friday 23 February 2007 12:12, Ross Davis wrote: > > I am trying to decide if I am ready to make the jump from SuSE 9.3 Pro > > to OpenSuSE 10.2. > > You know what? If it aint broke leave it alone. In other words, if your > system is running, does what you want, isn't having any trouble, and you > already like it a lot... well, leave it alone... no need to go to 10.2.... > in fact,... I'd stay at 9.3 if I were you...
...but the security updates may not be around long. Though I think 9.3 was my favorite version (from 9.1 to 10.1) I am on 10.1 simply because I want the updates. Oh, and on 10.2, I noticed a fairly damming article today: http://www.softwareinreview.com/cms/content/view/66/ It said... So Novell fixed the damage done by 10.1., but still has not addressed many of the lingering problems with installation and configuration that have plagued SUSE variants for the operating system's entire history. It's still a decent desktop operating system, and has one of the industry's best configuration frameworks (YaST), but it just doesn't compete with commercial GNU/Linux distros like Xandros or Mandriva. It has a hard time competing even with the free-of-charge Ubuntu Linux. Indeed, openSUSE is in danger of losing relevance in a rapidly evolving market. You can't have poor quality releases anymore -- those days of leniency are over. Desktop GNU/Linux is now a mature market, and companies like Novell need to start treating it like such. -- kai Free Compean and Ramos http://www.perfectreign.com/?q=node/46 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
