Martin Schlander wrote:
Onsdag 02 august 2006 16:37 skrev SOTL:
Any way these are some thoughts on why SuSE is going the route of Red Hat.
I've made similar points to the article before: that having a good home-user
A major issue is calling individual computer users home-users. The
relevant people are corporate executives not teen agers setting at home.
product is strategically important to get into the enterprise. And that is
the reason why Mark Shuttleworth has invested in shipping cds all over the
place (I think there must be more doo-doo-brown Ubuntu cds than there are
computers on this planet).
However I agree with the decision by Novell concerning binary-only
kernel-modules - and before long Ubuntu will probably (hopefully) be forced
to make the same decision.
I think you're way too fast with claims of SUSE going the Red Hat route.
Most of us agree that 10.1 has been horrific all in all. But this is only
_one_ release.
Why is 10.1 bad? It should have been an improvement on 10.0. It was not.
Based on this why should one assume that 10.2 will be an improvement on
10.0 or even 10.1? I do not. My assumption is that 10.2 will be a bigger
disaster than 10.1 is simply because developers are not interested in
correcting the problems with 10.1 but are interested in having the
latest woom zoom packages and features which then will not install.
Yesterday I attempted to upgrade a OpenSuSE 10.1 beta 8 working
installation to SuSE 10.1 only to have the system crash because packages
were deleted from SuSE 10.1 that were in OpenSuSE 10.1 beta 8. I then
did a reinstall and found since I am not in the old office with a DSL
line (we should have DSL next week) that a US Robotics 52v PCI internal
modem which my Red Hat 6.0 distribution installed correctly is now some
7 or is it 10 years later unsupported. One step forward two steps
backward and the dance goes on.
Wait and see if 10.2 won't be the greatest distro - or should
we say the greatest OS - ever.. It has all the possibility in the world to
become so. If 10.2 is screwed up too _then_ we have a problem.
Dreamer
And look at the 10.1 problems - apart from the kernel module decision - all
the problems had one reason: (testing for) SLED. Fortunately SLED has a two
year release cycle and thus won't screw up our distro again - at least for a
while.
Give (open)SUSE the benefit of the doubt - at least until 10.2 - and I'm sure
you'll see your conclusions are wrong.
Martin / cb400f
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