SUSE Linux 9.3 security support discontinued soon [LWN.net]

SUSE Linux 9.3 security support discontinued soon

Posted Mar 14, 2007 15:18 UTC (Wed) by cross (guest, #13601)
In reply to: SUSE Linux 9.3 security support discontinued soon by niner
Parent article: SUSE Linux 9.3 security support discontinued soon

> As for me 10.2 is simply the best working version since I started with
> 5.2 I wonder what these issues are?

They're probably different for everybody. Personally I find the fact that 10.2 is unable to keep the correct time on hardware that works with previous versions of SuSE including 9.3, 10.0 and 10.1 most annoying. NTP cannot keep sync with my very stable NTP server (running SuSE 9) for more than maybe half an hour and is off by many minutes a day. Taking it to the SuSE lists gets you a "works for me must be your hardware" which doesn't explain why it works perfectly well with all prior versions then.

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SUSE Linux 9.3 security support discontinued soon

Posted Mar 15, 2007 12:59 UTC (Thu) by Kmaurer (guest, #12642) [Link]

I have to agree - I've had problems with the clock issue since 9.3 - in
fact 10.2 hung my machine during the first boot when it tried to set the
hardware clock that it rendered the machine unbootable for days -
fortunately time healed the wound (?) enough that I could eventually boot
Kubuntu on another partition and I was able to replace the Suse partition
with Fedora Core 6...not my favorite.

I was sad but hopefull when Novell bought Suse. I just don't "have a lot
of fun" with Suse anymore.