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Re: [SLE] upgrade question
  • From: kastus@xxxxxxxxx (kastus@xxxxxxxxx)
  • Date: Wed, 22 Nov 2000 19:23:06 -0800
  • Message-id: <20001122192306.D2456@xxxxxxxxxxx>

From: kastus@xxxxxxxxx
Date: Wed, 22 Nov 2000 19:23:06 -0800
Message-ID: <20001122192306.D2456@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [SLE] upgrade question



On Wed, Nov 22, 2000 at 04:06:08PM -0800, Bob wrote:
> I am going to upgrade from 6.3. Should I move to 6.4 or 7.0? What are
> the pluses and minuses of each?

It depends. If you use 6.4 distribution on CDs you have to download ~600MB
of updates. 7.0 has less updates.

7.0 installs XFree 4.0, while 6.4 uses 3.3.6.

I'm using 6.4 at home and recently installed 7.0 at work. As long as home
system works fine I am not going to upgrade it to 7.0.

-Kastus

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