From: Alexei_Roudnev (Alexei_Roudnev_at_exigengroup.com)
Date: Sat Feb 10 2007 - 11:55:45 CET
Message-ID: <017f01c74d02$04202f80$6401a8c0@alexh> From: "Alexei_Roudnev" <Alexei_Roudnev@exigengroup.com> Date: Sat, 10 Feb 2007 02:55:45 -0800 Subject: Re: [suse-sles-e] SLES9 is abandoned?
Hi, John.
We all knows this _official_ position.
But experience shows, that once some subsystem (KDE for example) became
_optional_, it slowly degrade to _unusable_.
When company starts new OS, it moves it's best resources to this OS.
As a result, SLES9 (which is really THE BEST of SuSe Linuxes - SLES10 have
worst quality and is less stable)
looks _frozen_ (and is _frozen_). The same with KDE. And the same will
happen with ReiserFS when it became optional (it happen with other optional
file systems already - no one of them is stable enough for production use).
And in the end we wil have one more Ubuntu but much more expensive... guess
what people selects (Oracle Linux for servers and Ubuntu for desktops? A
very good chance to see it).
Before, SuSe had unique charm (and quality) of KDE + ReiserFS + YOU + YaST2.
And what it will be tomorrow? ZEN (urgly software)?
Gnome (everyone uses it)? ext3 fs with half-working dynamic resize (everyone
have it). YaST2 - of course but it does not cover al necessary topics even
today (try to configure PPTP client using YAST and then start it from
NetworkManager applet!). Novell / Microsoft deal (distracting huge amount of
users already, and even more developers)?
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