Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (720 mails)

[andyford@xxxxxxxxxxxx (Andy Ford)]

tulf wrote:
> 
> > From lsayre@xxxxxx  Sun Apr 12 11:39:34 1998
> > Message-ID: <<A HREF="msg00277.html">35302090.A6DD01F8@xxxxxx</A>>
> > Date: Sat, 11 Apr 1998 22:01:52 -0400
> > From: Lawrence Sayre <lsayre@xxxxxx>
> > X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.05 [en] (Win95; I)
> > To: SuSE Linux <suse-linux-e@xxxxxxxx>
> > Subject: [S.u.S.E. Linux] Buy SuSE 5.2 or wait for SuSE 6.0?
> > Sender: owner-suse-linux-e@xxxxxxxx
> > Reply-To: suse-linux-e@xxxxxxxx
> > X-Mailinglist: suse-linux-e
> 
> >
> > Since I have not yet purchased and installed Linux, and I'm interested
> > in what I'm hearing about SuSE 6.0, should I go ahead and purchase 5.2,
> > then install an upgrade later, or should I wait several months for the
> > release of 6.0 (5.3....)?
> >
> > Will there be a painless and reasonably priced upgrade path?
> >
> 
> Hi!
> 
> I have 5.1 and I think it is really worth the money.
> 5.2 must be better from what people say.
> But at the moment I wouldn's say that there is a
> reasonably priced upgrade path for me from 5.1 to 5.2.
> The upgrade in Germany costs 800f the new version.
> This is the price of the students version.
> If you see it relatively, it's steep,
> but all in all I assume that suses gain
> is very sharp calculated.
> 
> I'd make it depend on the contents of the package.
> The main differences between 5.? and 6.? will be definitely the
> libs and maybe the c-compiler , I think.
> 
> I haven't bought 5.2 because when I felt I needed
> an update of a program, I got it myself.
> I expect that upgrading to 6.? will be difficult,
> when you intend to make a lot changes to the system
> yourself, these probably will make difficulties.
> 
> arnulf
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One approach is to get a running system, and then just
upgrade the 
things that you need to. You can insert, say, a new kernel
into any distribution pretty painlessly (with a little
reading and research). That said, leaving well enough alone
is the key to
a "highly available" system. Of course as soon as I finish
this I'll run off and install a bunch of cool stuff that
i'll probably never use :)

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yours,
Andy
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