Re: [SLE] SuSE 9.2
From: Doug McGarrett (dmcgarrett_at_optonline.net)
Date: 01/27/05
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Date: Wed, 26 Jan 2005 23:45:39 -0500 To: suse-linux-e@suse.com
At 09:11 PM 1/26/2005 -0500, Patrick Shanahan wrote:
>* Doug McGarrett <dmcgarrett@optonline.net> [01-26-05 20:44]:
/snip/
>>If you've been reading this list
>> for a while, I should think you would not want 9.2 Pro, and if you
>> could find 9.0, you would would buy it. I would!
>
>You don't like SuSE. Why don't you go back to windoz instead of bad-
>mouthing a distro that *you* have problems with?
>
>On second thought, don't answer that. It was not intended to be a
>question.
>
/snip/
Patrick could have quoted the last part of my note, which said:
"Don't get me wrong: I'd like to see Linux win the battle
with MS, but the problems are not small, nor are they subtle."
I have been with SuSE for at least 3 major releases, and/or their
subsets. Up until 9.2 I thought they were doing a very good job.
I have to say that not only my own experience, but the problems
expressed on the list indicate that 9.2 was half-baked. Anyone
who doubts that has only to look back at the list. I don't remember
anything of this magnitude occurring after 9.0 or 9.1, or even 8.2.
I don't have any problem with SuSE trying to make money, as
someone on the list implied, but a product should not be released
to a schedule if it is not ready. Even MS tries, to some extent,
not to do that. (Someone pointed out, here, just the other day,
that Longhorn will certainly be late.)
I was employed by a Fortune-500 company which was taken over by a
very major multinational, and I know from first-hand experience what
happens, and it is not good. SuSE seemed to be doing fine until
Novell took over. Whether it can ever be what it was remains to
be seen. While the American suits walk around the German offices
and tell everybody what to do and when, and _how_, I have little
confidence. (In the case of the company I was with, virtually all
of the higher-level competent people were replaced, or quit.
At that point, I took advantage of my aging status and retired.)
Well, enough. When I get ambitious, I will install the latest
Mandrake and see what happens. I will stay aboard this forum to
find out how the SuSE system fares, and I certainly wish it well,
and perhaps will rejoin the users of it if and when the suits
go home and let the programmers do their jobs.
--doug
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