Test -- Where have all the horses gone?

[Bill Campbell]

On Wed, Nov 17, 2004, Net Llama! wrote:
>On Wed, 17 Nov 2004, Bill Campbell wrote:
>>
>> Personally I can't understand why anybody would run Fedora unless they're
>> totally addicted to the Red Hat Kool Aid, but then I've avoided RH forever,
>> largely because they have always seemed to release things before they're
>> ready.
>>
>> We switched from Caldera to SuSE a couple of years ago, and have been happy
>> with it.  I'm not into what I consider hacker or hobbyist Linux, preferring
>> to let somebody else to the heavy lifting on kernel and hardware
>> interfaces.  I want to concentrate on putting systems together that work
>> reliably with minimum hassle.
>
>That's kinda interesting, because my experiences have been the exact
>inverse.  Fedora (2 & 3) have both been rock solid, and everything just
>works(tm).  My experiences with SuSE-9.1 has been a nightmare, with
>installer bugs, kernel bugs, and alot of symptoms of stuff being hacked
>together.

One expects to have glitches with early releases of new kernels.  IHMO,
SuSE 9.1 should probably have had a new major release number (or perhaps
SuSE 9.0 should really have been SuSE 8.3).

We have been doing some internal work with SuSE 9.1 and recently SuSE 9.2,
and I haven't found any show stoppers.  I was disappointed that the year-
old Netgear 802.11g PCMCIA card didn't work on my laptop.  On the other
hand a USB 802.11b device that required some hacking on SuSE 9.0 worked
with no effort.

Bill
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