Why SuSE 9.0 vs. 9.1?

[Bill Vermillion]

On Fri, Jul 30 11:06 , Jay R. Ashworth moved his mouse, rebooted for the 
change to take effect, and then said:" 

> On Fri, Jul 30, 2004 at 09:51:56AM -0500, Jeremy Anderson
> wrote:
>
> > Jay R. Ashworth wrote:
> >
> > >Well, I don't know precisely what your commercial support
> > >requirements are, Enrique, but you may or may not need the
> > >enterprise grade distros to actually get your work done.
> > >Certainly, if $4k is an issue, then it's worth investigating
> > >things like SuSE 9.0.

> > Specifically, what are the issues with SuSE 9.1? ISTR someone
> > saying that it "wasn't ready for prime time". Is that just
> > the 2.6 kernel (with which I've had fun on other distros)?

> Mostly that, yes.  I'm presently fighting a different fight: KDM  has
> died the Death, apparently because I downgraded XFree from that
> sillyass 4.3.99.1 (4.4.0RC2) that they install to 4.3.0 from SuSE 8.1
> so I could get TV Out for the Myth box I'm building my sister...

> and sshd won't accept any logins either, and the console is 80 columns
> on a TV set, and...

> <sigh>

Have you found anything that would make it touchy in server
environment as oppossed to a desktop environment.  

Instead of downgrading to a lower version of Xfree have you tried
Xorg?   Just curious.

Bill
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