[opensuse] Conspiracy theory [not MS...]
Just about when 10.1 was released a thought came to me that I wanted to
share: Why was 10.1 delayed? Not because the package management system
was not working ('just another bug'), but more importantly, that the
next release (+6 months from then) would fall onto Christmas [expl. see
below].
Previously - i.e. if the regular schedule was kept
* 2005-10-06 10.0 Final (wiki)
* +6.5 months2006-03-25 10.1 Final (math)
* +6 months2006-10-xx 10.2 Final (math)
Note that OpenBSD would have been released right after it, 2006-11-01.
Currently - how it really turned out:
* 2006-05-11 10.1 Final
* +6 months2006-12-07 10.2 Final (math)
Now, vendors have some time to preinstall it onto machines and have them
sold by Christmas with a _new shiny_ 10.2 rather than a 2.5 month old
version. Beats both OpenBSD 4 (1.5 months old) and Vista (not to be
released until after xmas).
Intersting marketing idea. Conspiracy Ferpecto! :-)
-`J'
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Re: [opensuse] Conspiracy theory [not MS...]
On Sun, 2006-11-12 at 12:17 -0500, Patrick Shanahan wrote: * Duncan Mac-Vicar [EMAIL PROTECTED] [11-12-06 11:57]: ... Your theory fails becauseyou start wrong assumptions. Isn't the time table also inaccurate? Isn't the present schedule based loosely on _eight_ months? The time frame has been increased, I think, to 8-9 months instead of 6. -- Ken Schneider UNIX since 1989, linux since 1994, SuSE since 1998 - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [opensuse] Conspiracy theory [not MS...]
On 2006-11-12 06:21, Jan Engelhardt wrote: Just about when 10.1 was released a thought came to me that I wanted to share: Why was 10.1 delayed? Not because the package management system Jan, you have entirely too much spare time on your hands :-) - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [opensuse] Conspiracy theory [not MS...]
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday 12 November 2006 13:18, Darryl Gregorash wrote: Jan, you have entirely too much spare time on your hands :-) lol,.i agree did you ever think that it was delayed because... it was JUST a delay, and there was no alterior motive? lol your reading too much into it. 1:29pm up 2 days 11:16, 1 user, load average: 0.23, 0.23, 0.32 Powered by: SuSE Linux 10.1 ~ Kernel 2.6.16.21-0.25-smp #1 ~ Kmail 1.9 ~ Registered Linux user: 412217 http://reillyblog.com http://norwichlinuxusersgroup.com -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFFV2igUomsJZB8WEYRAi1KAJ9ObKBewVYLJeprXeij3Dg74P4h8QCZAW60 u0irsTsV08QIY8+j43jOdWg= =Pzog -END PGP SIGNATURE- - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
