OT: SuSE 9.2 preemptive strike

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At Sat, Oct 30, 2004 at 10:28:24AM -0700 or thereabouts, 
suspect Bill Campbell was observed uttering:
> I picked up a copy of SuSE 9.2 Pro from Fry's last night (thanks
> Mark for getting me to spend money :-), and will be installing it
> on my old ThinkPad 600 in hopes that it will support an 802.11g
> card of some kind.

It was supposed to keep people -away-, not make them rush to buy it!
"A geek and their money are soon parted?"  Is that it?  :)  (No
offense...I'm at a loss for a better term, at the moment.)

I hadn't actually heard it was out until I saw an RSS feed item that
was related to a review of it.  I got the release date of October 23 from
looking at the live ISO for it on their ftp site.  It may have been out
slightly before they did the live ISO, but it's still pretty darned
"fresh".

Well, see, it doesn't bother me that -you're- doing it, since you 1) know
what you're doing, and 2) won't put it into production, and 3) evaluate it
for a good, long while.  That's no biggie.  It's the people that will put
Fedora Core Test 3--or at least FC3 release within a week of release--on a
production system (they know who they are!) that worry me.  And then they
wonder why things don't work, get confused when nobody can offer solutions
to arcane problems they've run into...the lot.

FWIW, some of the features of SuSE 9.2 are supposed to be better WLAN
support in YaST, more hardware drivers with the newer kernel, Bluetooth
support, etc.

I must be getting old...the only thing I consider it good for is
testbedding at this point.  I remember a day when I'd snag the latest
kernel -every- release day--even development trees.  That went away a long
time ago.  Who has time?  If I had a spare system, I'd probably throw it on
to play with and compare against 9.0.  Alas, I don't.  :)

Evolution isn't bad.  If we'd been near 2.6.18, I'd even say this was
good.  But I really think that since 9.1 came out in May and I'd just now
be callig it ready if it wasn't for the kernel, that 9.2 is kind of like
another Police Greatest Hits album--released with distasteful frequency.
Granted, there were other advances.  But it's still tied to 2.6. *grumble*
They could have just updated 9.1, and probably should have.  This is how RH
got from 7.0 onwards--they release a new version just about the time you
finally decide the last release is stable enough to trust.

I'd rather be behind the curve and stable than on the bleeding edge at this
point in my life, though.  It's still one of those things that makes
knowing when to upgrade a tricky proposition--there's never a "good" time.

mark->
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