Comments on: Why do we Release openSUSE on Thursdays – or why do we Slip?

By: OO user whit 1440x900 resolution

OO user whit 1440x900 resolution — Sun, 02 Nov 2008 12:40:51 +0000

Interesting and cood to know information how this kind of prosess works. I tryed out Kubuntu 8.10 release and I new get it work on my two pc’s (Intel and AMD). I took OpenSuse 11.1 Beta4 and both PC runs like sharm. Only OpenOffice wont work due to fatal Error. I just don’t know where the error comes from. But anyhow, you can see that Suse has very good prosess to minimize fatal bugs and thats why Suse’s betas works much better than other Linux distro’s final releases! Bigest issue is the hardware combability and autoreconition of HW. Suse has still problems to get my LG 19LS4D-ZB monitor to work correctly on 1440×900 resolution. Now I have to use “LCD” monitor and 1400v1050 resolution to get it work. This seems to be issue on all distros.

Anyhow – keep working as hard you have – this will be a nice release someday!

By: felipe alvarez

felipe alvarez — Sun, 02 Nov 2008 09:41:20 +0000

I like reading things like these. I am not a developer, but I do like testing Late Betas and RC’s. This was an interesting educational lesson. Thanks for sharing. Also sounds very very technical — means I have even more learning to do.

By: F2

F2 — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 00:43:27 +0000

I dig this!

By: Cinq-Marquis

Cinq-Marquis — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 15:17:13 +0000

Thanks for the clear ‘explain’
Have been using (open)SuSE since 2001 and appreaciate all the work that you and your team do !
Thanks agian.

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openSuSE 11.0 – KDE 4.1.64

By: Andreas Jaeger

Andreas Jaeger — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 08:41:24 +0000

> Doesn’t rebuilding all packages actually _hide_ ABI changes?

The rebuild will notice the API change at compile time – and not an obscure runtime error. I don’t understand your reference to ABI changes here.

By: Gerald Pfeifer

Gerald Pfeifer — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 21:15:45 +0000

> If one package changes the API or ABI, the rebuild of the
> packages will notice many problems.

Doesn’t rebuilding all packages actually _hide_ ABI changes?

By: rod

rod — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 19:05:42 +0000

OK, in December i want to see the best linux desktop of World!!!

By: Bertbeau

Bertbeau — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 18:55:53 +0000

I am a great fan of OpenSuse since 8.
I also have many of my customers usint either 10.3 or 11
We love it for its solidity, flexibility in all sorts of installation fron 300mhz machine to 64 bits ones etc…

Keep up the good work!

By: Nick

Nick — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 18:28:18 +0000

Better later and in a better shape than rushed out through the door and buggy as … other oS-es Can’t do much without power…

By: Stano

Stano — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 12:26:09 +0000

Thanks a lot for the post!