[NTLUG:Discuss] SuSE 9.2 Updates -- LOOKOUT!

[Chris Cox]

Stephen Davidson wrote:
> Greetings.
> 
> <vent>
> I am REALLY beginning to HATE SuSE's updates.  I have lost 85% of the 
> functionality of my main work laptop because of an update from SuSE (a 
> driver became corrupted -- to the point where I need to downshift to 
> SuSE 8.2 to get this machine working again).  And now another poison 
> update has taken down the ListServer on my server????  WTF has happened 
> to SuSE's Quality Control?  This was not an issue before Novell 
> purchased them!
> </vent>
> Serious Question: What is up with SuSE updates all of a sudden?  I have 
> NEVER had trouble with them before, and now I am watching systems drop 
> faster than MS systems????  Downgrading is going to take time that I 
> don't have for this kind of nonsense.



I'm surprised about the problem since SUSE
(and it's the same folks basically just reporting ultimately to
someone at Novell) tends to do a reasonable job with updates (they
backport fixes rather than moving you up... 2.6.11 is a killer for
example unless you know what to do).  I know I've received all of the
latest updates and haven't had anything "drop".  Can you be more specific
about the corrupted driver, etc?

Just curious,
Chris