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Posted in GNU/Linux, KDE, Novell, OpenSUSE at 1:22 pm by Dr. Roy Schestowitz
Early adopters urged to beware
OpenSUSE aficionados and Novell sympathisers teased us a little by claiming that OpenSUSE 11.0 was well received. They urged others to believe that there were no negative reviews, but there are actually quite a few, most of which will be shared on Saturday. Here is a brand-new one which stands out.
For anyone who has used SuSE Linux for a while, the mixed bag that comprises an x.0 release shouldn’t be any su[r]prise. For the unfamiliar, SuSE (and now openSUSE) follow the Windows upgrade rule: wait for SP1. In the case of openSUSE, that’s the x.1 release. In my experience (which started with SuSE Linux 7.2) the release cycle is like this:
- x.0: Big bang, big casualties. * x.1: Bugfix to x.0 to get back to x-1.3 quality/support/compatibility. * x.2: Incremental improvements since x.0 that were held up bugfixing for x.1. * x.3: A stable, polished, albeit aging release.
So, needless to say, I’ll be doing my day-to-day work on openSUSE 10.3, for at least a few more months. 11.0 is installed on my laptop, too (thank you grub for making that easy), but I don’t see myself touching it until I see some bugfixes come out of Novell.
Over at the IRC channel, it was suggested some hours ago that OpenSUSE may have given KDE4 a bad name because it included an old version++ and claimed it to be the most polished experience. SJVN was grumpy about it yesterday; Aaron Seigo seems to have shut the gates of his blog.
To be fair, KDE 3.5 is still included on the OpenSUSE DVD, but there is no LiveCD installer for it. Why?
At the end of the day, herein we find more reason to choose GNU/Linux distributions, not Ballnux. █
___++ Fedora did too, but at the time of its most recent release (9), including 4.1 was less practical.
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