Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (2407 mails)

[kline@xxxxxxxxxxx (Gary Kline)]

On Mon, Aug 21, 2000 at 02:28:20PM -0700, Ron Heron wrote:
> Hello,  I have been using SuSE since 6.0.  I upgraded
> to 6.2, and then 6.4.  It seems to me, though, that
> getting the system usable, and maintaining current
> software is becoming more and more difficult with
> SuSE.  Maybe it is just me, but I have noticed
> numerous postings where people have MAJOR problems
> using SuSE upgrades and patches, or basic Linux
> upgrades on a SuSE-installed system.  Here are my
> examples:
> 
> 1)  Upgraded to Kernel 2.2.16, and the system was
> unusable.  Why can't I upgrade to a new kernel
> downloaded from the internet?  Every time (5 times
> now) I tried to put in a new kernel on a SuSE distro,
> it failed miserably.  But, I was able to upgrade other
> Linux systems at work (RH and Debian)  I had to fall
> back to the SuSE kernel.  Is not linux linux?
> 

        I upgraded to 2.2.16 and even upgraded the network
        drivers entirely as a newcomer to Linux and everything
        works well.  My investment was in time spent to
        understand what I was doing... and even there I was
        a bit fuzzy.  

        gary

        PS:  Haven't tried the up-grade packages tho...

> 


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   Gary D. Kline         kline@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx          Public service Unix

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