Re: Suse 9.1 is now in the bin.

From: Paul J Gans (gans_at_panix.com)
Date: 06/17/04 

Date: Thu, 17 Jun 2004 02:51:00 +0000 (UTC)

Georg N.Nyman <gnnyman@comcast.net> wrote:
>Well, I understand your frustration very well. I have tried to upgrade
>several times from 9.0 to 9.1 and ended up finally with first saving
>my /home directory ( that what I wanted to save ) and then a clean new
>install. Now everything works again after I got help from 9.1 gurus over
>the net.
>My conclusion - do not give up, and if so, stay with Linux. Do not convert
>to Windows. I feel that we need another couple of years to get to a point
>where distributions are more solid, more robust and easier overall but it
>is worth waiting and sticking it out.

I think that what we are seeing with 9.1 is more a problem
of switching to the new 2.6 kernel than with SuSE itself.
It is a *horrible* job to compile everything in the
distribution with the new kernel that itself still has
some bugs that are being ironed out.

And there is NO WAY to test every package with every
combination of hardware.

>I am not in favor of supporting a company (MS) which has a market value of
>over $ 250Bio and gets richer and richer every single day. I am an Open
>Source advocate and supporter of freedom of choice - so stick it out and
>support Linux and Linux based systems.

>Good luck George

I certainly agree with that.

   ----- Paul J. Gans

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