A few weeks ago, somebody on this list said "SuSE is more stable than
Red Hat; just compare their errata sections." Well, now I require
software that requires glibc (glibc has been out a year and a half,
libc5 has been discontinued, I think that's not unreasonable). So I set
out to upgrade.
First I tried http://www.suse.com. What a dusty old web site! I hunted
all over, but could find no updates section. I distinctly remembered
downloading XF86 3.3.3 from an updates section, but 20 minutes of
clicking could not find it. In despiration I tried
http://www.suse.de/e, and got a very different web site! SuSE does NOT
mirror its web sites! That's just sloppy. They should shut the U.S.
site down if they're not going to use it. As it is, I think it's doing
more harm than good.
After hunting all around the European site, I found they still don't
offer a glibc update. Incredible. Now I've got to waste my time
adapting more Red Hat packages. My SuSE system is probably 10% Red Hat
by now.
While glibc is downloading, I have time to compare the errata pages.
Yes, Red Hat's is longer. Know why? SuSE's stops in November! And
that was an update for the 2.0.36 kernel; the next latest update is in
October, 3 months ago!
After seeing that, I took the time to compare like the person
suggested. Here are some of Red Hat's updates since November:
XFree86 3.3.3.1 Security and bug fixes.
Security fixes to kernel 2.0.36
Security fixes in Samba
Security fixes in Sysklogd
XF86 3.3.3.1 has been available since 30 December! My SuSE XF86 3.3.3
can not run ImageMagick, xv, Maelstrom, or the Gimp because the X server
bombs out with an error 11. Many people on this list have complained of
the same bug. Red Hat's XF86 3.3.3 does not have this problem. Even if
SuSE were not interested in security, you would think that they would
want to fix this bug. But we have not heard word 1 from them about
this. In fact, I have been on this list 2 months now, and the only
thing I heard from anybody at SuSE, even when asked a direct question,
was "sorry for filling your mail boxes with hundreds of fax denied and
mailbox full messages."
So, now I sit here, 3 hours lost and counting, trying to sort glibc
conflicts. This means I get to come in to work tomorrow to do what I
WANTED to get done today. So much for the weekend.
I'm one unhappy SuSE customer. :(
- Scott
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