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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