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"Wake up call" for openSUSE as 12.2 is delayed
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Kudos to the openSUSE developers for releasing when ready, not at some arbitrary date on the calendar ready or not. Any improvements in the development or release process that come out of this are, of course, welcome. I wish more distros would approach their releases this way. Better to get it right than worry about a given date.
>>>>I wish more distros would approach their releases this way.
PCLinuxOS does this already for years.
PCLinuxOS does this already for years.
It might be time for me to check out their latest..I ran PCLOS for a couple years..been on LinuxMint as of late.
@caitlyn.....agreed 110%. While I am looking forward very much to getting my hands on version 12.2, I would much rather have something that works, not a botched up "thing" that crashes at the first opportunity. Personally, I wouldn't even mind moving to a 2 year cycle, just to give the developers plenty of time to really polish off the rough edges.
Given that openSUSE is my working distribution, there is one thing about it and its releases that really irks me. The classic instance is coming up shortly. As I understand it, openSUSE uses an 18month cycle and so in about a month or so, support for version 11.4 will be discontinued. The problem as far as I am concerned (and I stress this is *strictly my opinion and impression*) is that version 11.4 is miles in front of version 12.1 in terms of user friendliness and just plain "good to use", but is now to be scrapped and you are forced to head over to a version that doesn't work as well for you.
A major part of the problem is now the utter complexity of the Desktop Managers that come with the basic OS. You would think that since there is just a "single file" of KMail in both version 11.4 and 12.1, and both use the same system, you could just delete and replace in 12.1.......Oh brother....try for a broken dependency handicap, this one's a beauty. And crazily, this is not the same with other items. K3b, for instance, is crippled in the release versions, again is a single file. Just replace it from Packman and you are away.
There is, of course, the "Evergreen Project" which has been set up to keep these good versions running for an extended period and I may move over to that while version 12.x begins to solidify.
http://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Evergreen
That's the nice thing about Linux......you ALWAYS have options.
Given that openSUSE is my working distribution, there is one thing about it and its releases that really irks me. The classic instance is coming up shortly. As I understand it, openSUSE uses an 18month cycle and so in about a month or so, support for version 11.4 will be discontinued. The problem as far as I am concerned (and I stress this is *strictly my opinion and impression*) is that version 11.4 is miles in front of version 12.1 in terms of user friendliness and just plain "good to use", but is now to be scrapped and you are forced to head over to a version that doesn't work as well for you.
A major part of the problem is now the utter complexity of the Desktop Managers that come with the basic OS. You would think that since there is just a "single file" of KMail in both version 11.4 and 12.1, and both use the same system, you could just delete and replace in 12.1.......Oh brother....try for a broken dependency handicap, this one's a beauty. And crazily, this is not the same with other items. K3b, for instance, is crippled in the release versions, again is a single file. Just replace it from Packman and you are away.
There is, of course, the "Evergreen Project" which has been set up to keep these good versions running for an extended period and I may move over to that while version 12.x begins to solidify.
http://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Evergreen
That's the nice thing about Linux......you ALWAYS have options.
"The nice thing about standards is that there are so many to choose from."--Tannenbaum
> Kudos to the openSUSE developers for releasing when ready, not at some arbitrary date on the calendar ready or not ... I wish more distros would approach their releases this way.
You mean the way Slackware has always done it? :)
You mean the way Slackware has always done it? :)
Quoting:PCLinuxOS does this already for years.
Quoting:You mean the way Slackware has always done it? :)
Lots of distros do this and they all deserve praise for it. (Yes, jdixon, even Slackware :) Sadly some of the largest and most popular distros don't and the results range from annoying to awful. Sadly, somehow, they remain popular.
> Lots of distros do this and they all deserve praise for it. (Yes, jdixon, even Slackware :)
I knew you felt that way Caitlyn. :) But sometimes things need to be said. There are reasons Slackware is the oldest surviving Linux distribution.
I knew you felt that way Caitlyn. :) But sometimes things need to be said. There are reasons Slackware is the oldest surviving Linux distribution.
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