On Thursday 15 March 2007 17:15, Hartmut Meyer wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Thursday 15 March 2007 19:39, John Andersen wrote:
> > On Thursday 15 March 2007, Hartmut Meyer wrote:
> > > Just for the sake of it, let's have a look at the most recent
> > > recommended update as announced on the suse-security-announce mailing
> > > list on the 6th of March:
> > >
> > > --- snip -----
> > >                         SUSE Security Announcement
> > >
> > >         Package:                MozillaFirefox,seamonkey
> >
> > Yet another User space application having NOTHING WHAT SO EVER to do
> > with running Suse 9.0 or 10.2 or even 7.3 if you were so inclined.
>
> ??
>
> Are you saying that only kernel security issues are relevant?
>
> The next security advisory (from today) was about PHP ...
>
> I'm afraid I just don't get what your talking about :-(
>
>
> Greetings from Stuhr
> hartmut

I have been following this thread from the beginning, and I am unhappy
with something.  I am using 9.3, and it works really nicely.  As soon as
10.3 comes out, all my support will be gone.  What if 10.3 is a mess?
I found 10.0 to be a mess, when my KMail started outputting 5 or 10
percent of my incoming mail in Chinese characters.  So I went back.
There have certainly been a lot of issues in 10.1 and 10.2.  And there
still seem to be, according to the messages on this list.  I think there
should be some sort of support for those versions that most of us agree
are pretty problem-free, until another version comes along that most of
us agree is pretty problem-free.  Yes many of us--not necessarily me--
will upgrade right away, and find out if there are serious problems, and
report to the list and to the bug site.  Frankly, I do not intend to
upgrade for at least a couple of months, until I find out what the
cutting-edge folks have discovered.  And then I might not.  I want a system
that works, not one that I have to futz with all the time to make it work.
I am not qualified to futz with the system all the time, to be perfectly 
honest.  I didn't grow up with Unix.

One of the other things that bothers me is the continual changes to or
elimination of things that work, in favor of cutting-edge stuff
that doesn't actually work.  Like Ann Landers, I say, "If it ain't broke,
don't fix it."  From what I hear, Xen is broke, the latest automount
is broke, smart is at least bent--why this stuff, why?

--doug
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