On Tue, Nov 29, 2011 at 11:20 AM, Prasanna Venkadesh <[email protected]> wrote: > OpenSuse is one of the most stable distro I have ever seen. Trust me, I > have started linuxing with Ubuntu like many others and get crashed my > system while trying up something new. But in this case everything is much > stable.
I have been using SuSE Linux since 1996 for my servers and have been a happy user. I was evaluating 12.1 from RC1 stage for desktop and it was stable. > *Version Number* > > With a bunch of new features and elegant performance improvement this new > version is numbered as directly .1 rather .0, because .0 would create many > expectations of major improvements. I installed 12.1 RC1 on a brand new laptop (i5-2430, 4GB RAM, Intel GPU, WiFi, BT, card reader etc.) and all devices work out of the box w/o the need for downloading BLOB drivers. I upgraded to 12.1 released version as soon it was available on the mirrors. On the desktop end I am happy with it. However, if you want to use 12.1 on the server side - a few words of caution. I was an early adopter on the server side as well but reverted back to 11.4. There are quite a few issues, mostly related to the switch from System V init to Systemd init. Change to System V init, if you must use 12.1 on the server side. See openSUSE mailing list archives for issues with 12.1. Plan to open bug reports on the breakage I have experienced. My 10 paise. -- Arun Khan _______________________________________________ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
