Why SuSE 9.0 vs. 9.1?

[Bill Campbell]

On Fri, Jul 30, 2004, 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)?

I installed SuSE 9.1 Professional on an HP Visualize workstation here last
week, a dual PIII 1GhZ machine with 1GB RAM, SCSI, and a 32MB nVidea
graphics card of unknown parentage.  I spent a good bit of last weekend
building about 150 OpenPKG packages on this system, updating from OpenPKG
Release 2.0 to Release 2.1 in the process.  There were a couple of minor
issues with gcc and header file type conflicts on old programs that
internally had ``extern malloc'' calls and things like that, but nothing
unusual or hard to fix.

The major issues I've seen so far are XFree86 related which may or may not
affect server operation depending on the behaviour of X clients run on the
server that must display on another X server.

One problem I've had with the fully updated SuSE 9.1 Professional
desktop system here is that perl::Tk X-clients on other systems
fail to display on the SuSE 9.1 X server, failing with:

X Error of failed request:  BadAtom (invalid Atom parameter)
  Major opcode of failed request:  20 (X_GetProperty)
  Atom id in failed request:  0x1a6
  Serial number of failed request:  11
  Current serial number in output stream:  11

I've also had issues where ssh sessions with X11 forwarding seem to time
out losing the key information in the ~/.Xauthority file so that new X
clients won't run after some period of time.

As usual, I've replaced the SuSE openssh with the OpenPKG version which
knows about the extended OpenPKG PATH, but didn't have any problems running
ssh from other systems before that switch over.

Bill
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