From: Marcus Meissner (meissner_at_suse.de)
Date: Mon Feb 12 2007 - 17:13:00 CET
Date: Mon, 12 Feb 2007 17:13:00 +0100 From: Marcus Meissner <meissner@suse.de> Message-ID: <20070212161300.GA19036@suse.de> Subject: Re: [suse-sles-e] SLES9 is abandoned?
On Sat, Feb 10, 2007 at 02:55:45AM -0800, Alexei_Roudnev wrote:
> 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).
Frozen is perhaps a wrong word here. I would call it stable. We are
not adding new features at this time, and Service Pack 4 likely
will mostly have Kernel Driver Updates.
The feature additions and majority of bugfixes is done against SLES 10 at this
time.
For bleeding edge desktop features use SLED 10 as business version or
openSUSE 10.2 for our current community release.
> Before, SuSe had unique charm (and quality) of KDE + ReiserFS + YOU + YaST2.
It still has a unique charm.
> 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)?
You will see that the new packagemanagement has improved much once
Service Pack 1 of SLE 10 is released.
reiserfs is still actively supported in all current products, and everything
where ext3 has lacking features can be added in time for SLES 11.
Ciao, Marcus
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