Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Mon 7th Oct 2002 07:27 UTC
If there are two things in this apartment that I don't like, that would first be the dog upstairs which barks at 5 AM almost every morning, and the fact that UPS almost never deliver things on our door. They never bother to check if we are in. The SuSE people were very kind to send us the Professional version of SuSE 8.1, but unfortunately, I received it 10 days later after it arrived in the apartment's complex. But now we got it here, we gave it a spin for almost a week, and here is what we think about it.
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Yeah, ELX is a great distro. A new version with KDE 3, and various other updates is supposed to be out any time now ... can't wait to give it a spin. Unlike SuSE, whose motto when it comes to software seems to be, "Beta? Alpha? Give it to us and if we can shove it into an RPM we'll ship it."
Don't get me wrong, I *love* the amount of software SuSE makes available, just because it's fun to play around with, but some of the stuff they ship is far from ready for primetime. I never understood that, since when a new user selects one of those alpha/beta packages and it turns into an awful experience, this relfects badly on SuSE, since to a new user anything SuSE ships is "part of" SuSE and makes SuSE look bad (as it should, I'm sure Eugenia would point out).
I always thought they'd be much better off if they'd have a separate subtree in the installer that you could only access by clicking something like "Show Developmental/Unfinished Packages" and a warning that the software inside that subtree may or may not work as expected. That way it would be abundantly clear to new users what is and is not supposed to "just work". Also, users after maximum stability could just avoid this subtree altogether.