On Wed, 6 Jan 1999, Ralph Clark wrote:
>
> lunaslide wrote:
>
> > At 04:58 PM 1/5/99 -0500, you wrote:
> > >
> > >I'm new to Linux and have been reading/lurking for some time but
> > >now am ready to do it [the first install].
> > >
> > >I've had my S.u.S.E. Linux 5.3 for about six months now. The date
> > >on the ends of the case of CD disks is July 1998.
> > >
> > >Is this this buggy edition from the early release, that was the talk of
> > >the day a few months back? Is it OK to go with or should I try and
> > >get a later release?
> > >
> > >Help with this potentially aggravating problem is welcomed now.
> > >Don't need extra difficulty if it can be avoided now. Thanks..
> >
> > There are updates on the SuSE ftp site. SuSE tends to be less buggy out of
> > the box than RH, in my experience.
> >
> > Here's an experiment, especially for the guy or gal asking about the diff
> > between Red Hat and SuSE: go to both sites and look at the list of Errata
> > for each distribution. It's enlightening! After installing RH 5.1 and
> > then looking at that, my next distribution was SuSE.
>
> That's the main reason I switched from Red Hat 5.0 to SuSE 5.3 as well. We have
> to be careful here though; if Linux distributors thought issuing more bug fixes
> made their product look bad, they might become more reluctant to do it. Like for
> example how long did it take Microsoft to release a service pack to correct the
> mistakes in Windows 98? They knew about those bugs even before the prodict was
> launched but the early release of a service pack would have been a pulic
> admission that the product was bug-ridden.
Well, historically, they actually started on a service pack right after
the Win98 release. I know, because I was scheduled to test it :) Only
problem was that I had formatted Win98 and installed Linux :)
>
> One other downside of all those updates is that although there is a patch format
> for rpms, it's hardly ever used - you almost always have to download the whole
> package even for a minor bug fix. And then you've got to find space for it on
> backup media too.
>
> Ralph
>
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