OpenSUSE Has RC, But Issues Inside Still Not Resolved

Dr. Roy Schestowitz

2012-07-15 08:16:37 UTC
Modified: 2012-07-15 08:16:37 UTC

Mango and green

Summary: A quick look at SUSE at a time of crisis and face-saving RCs

THE NEWS about OpenSUSE reaching Release Candidate (RC) has travelled from the official site of OpenSUSE to SUSE-friendly outlets, a few exceptions, and sources that typically cover such SUSE news (owing to authors' preferences). To quote: "Release Candidate for openSUSE 12.2 has just been released, taking one step closer to a stable release after the recent shake up"

"The project/product is facing real problems and the RC is no guarantee of technical quality."To put things in context: "One month after openSUSE admitted it had a problem and was seeking a new direction, the first release candidate of openSUSE 12.2 is now available."

There is also a response to Torvalds' rant about SUSE. To quote: "openSUSE team has announced the release of openSUSE 12.2 RC1 for testing. This release candidate gives us a glimpse of what openSUSE 12.2 will offer. There were some problems with Grub2 till the previous released, now it has been finally updated to Grub 2.0. The team has fixed the serial console support by respecting the console width. Its branding was also updated. There were fixes to udev, and to udisks and udisks2 to hide LVM RAID partitions, and many fixes came to autofs from an updated upstream patch."

This hardly changes the fact that there are internal problems. The project/product is facing real problems and the RC is no guarantee of technical quality. There is no response to UEFI yet. ⬆

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