From: shashi (shashi.boddula_at_oracle.com)
Date: Sat Feb 10 2007 - 18:04:10 CET
Message-ID: <45CDFB0A.6000808@oracle.com> Date: Sat, 10 Feb 2007 22:34:10 +0530 From: shashi <shashi.boddula@oracle.com> Subject: Re: [suse-sles-e] SLES9 is abandoned?
Rasmus Plewe and John Kennedy,
Well, i am not part of this SLES9/SLES10 and KDE/GNOME war, but i always have a question in mind
from the birth of SLES9. The truth is , the GNOME in SLES9 had a lot of display issues, i can't view
many third part tools properly in GNOME-SLES9. Why can't Novell solve that issue? , i have seen
many times that Novell had issued lot of patches for KDE , but i didn't see not even single patch
for GNOME in the SLES9 SP* cycle, is there any improvement happening with SP4 in this area?
Rasmus Plewe wrote:
> On Sat, Feb 10, 2007 at 02:55:45AM -0800, Alexei_Roudnev wrote:
>> We all knows this _official_ position.
>
> And there is no reason to question the roadmap information we release.
>
>> But experience shows, that once some subsystem (KDE for example) became
>> _optional_, it slowly degrade to _unusable_.
>
> Your example is not true, KDE is very far from unusable in SLES10.
> Please give another example, where we claimed that something would be a
> supported, equal alternative that then degraded.
>
>> 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).
>
> Are you saying that ext3 is not stable enough for production? Or which
> of our optional, general-purpose file systems are you referring to?
>
> And why should a file system, that you claim fulfills all of your needs,
> become less stable if it isn't changed in the future? It will stay the
> way it is now, it will get bug fixes for a far longer time than you're
> going to keep your current production hardware.
>
>> 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).
>
> I have *no* idea where you get this notion from. Ubuntu does not even
> use the same package format as we do, not to talk about the business
> model (long term maintenance, support organisation...).
>
>
> Regards,
> Rasmus
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