SUSE Linux Professional 9.3 coming
SUSE Linux Professional 9.3 coming
Posted Mar 10, 2005 19:31 UTC (Thu) by einstein (subscriber, #2052)In reply to: SUSE Linux Professional 9.3 coming by maceto
Parent article: SUSE Linux Professional 9.3 coming
That's a new one on me. I moved from fedora to suse specifically because I found that everything works for me, out of the box on suse, while fedora takes a lot of tweaking and home-made scripts to get things working right.
Suse has a fairly decent beta test community, composed mainly of more technical users, and the betas get a good shaking out before the final version is released.
Posted Mar 11, 2005 0:07 UTC (Fri)
by lesceil (guest, #28385)
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I installed SUSE Pro 9.1 before on my server, and was surprised that something as simple as burning an audio CD would completely lock up my machine. Good betatester program? WTF - and also remember that people using XFS filesystems lost data because it apparently had also not been tested.
Now when SUSE 9.2 came out I was thinking 'this time they must have gotten it right'. I could not have been more wrong. First messup: I changed the initial package installation to include some developer packages like the usermode kernel package. Admittedly that might be a little off-mainstream but still it should not have removed the original kernel from the grub config in /boot and replaced it with a usermode kernel that is entirely useless for initial booting. It took me a while of playing around with the rescue cd to correct that and get access to my new installation.
My old harddisk I had changed to hdc, and the new one I installed SUSE 9.2 on is hda, with a brand new reiserfs, all seemed to be fine. Until I tried to mount my exisiting old reiserfs partitions of /dev/hdc1 and /dev/hdc2.
Thats when I threw SUSE 9.2 into the trash and installed Fedora Core 3. It has it's own annoyances but at least it is not as terrible an experience as Pro 9.X - I will definitly skip 9.3.
Michael
Posted Mar 11, 2005 16:20 UTC (Fri)
by JohnBell (guest, #12625)
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If you're going to dye your head three shades of purple and stick your chest out to show off your KMFM t-shirt on a daily basis, go all the way and rice out your box with Gentoo. Fedora Core 3 a step up from SuSE Pro? Whatever floats your boat...
Posted Mar 11, 2005 19:16 UTC (Fri)
by mightyduck (guest, #23760)
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Entirely not my experience.SUSE Linux Professional 9.3 coming
Thank god I had recreated my filesystems with reiserfs and so did not run into this issue.
The system immediately locked up AGAIN.
I've never understood why the "purple hair" crowd has trouble with SuSE. I am running 9.1 Pro right now. I am running it using both ext3 and XFS (using XFS for the multimedia work). I don't use ReiserFS because for many moons it was the most unstable flaky POS under-performing file system I had ever seen. Sounds like it still is.SUSE Linux Professional 9.3 coming
My impression is that there testing ever went downhill since they were SUSE Linux Professional 9.3 coming
acquired by Novell. SUSE 9.1 was a f*cking disaster because we have a lot
of systems with XFS (we use XFS also for root partitions) so we couldn't
install it at all at the beginning. And SUSE 9.2 has at least 2 serious
bugs which affect us, the nscd is crashing immediately if you use LDAP as
name service (which I could imagine a lot of enterprise users do) and the
cups-polld is dying if you restart the print server it is polling. I
agree that these bugs don't really affect home users but they should've
tested 9.2 at least at some enterprises. That's what you get with a
public beta.