Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (3627 mails)

[Michael Hasenstein <mha@xxxxxxxx>]

Herman Knief wrote:
> 
> OK - I have a question regarding SuSE's eMail Server II....
> I recently installed this and was shocked to see that, even though it comes with
> SuSE 7.1 boot floppies, the actual OS on the CD is 7.0!

I'm shocked you are shocked!!!

If you want the latest greatest gadgets you should get the Professional
Edition. The EMail server is supposed to perform a FUNCTION, and that
function is "EMail server". I don't see what any package version
information has to do with this.


> Now, the heart of the question is... what was modified in this kernel (since it
> is supposed to be the "Enterprise ediotion"?  Is it safe to apply a 7.0 update
> kernel to this package (to get me to something newer and safer than 2.2.16)?  Is
> there a special kernel upgrade that I should download (if so, where is it)?

The 2.2.19 update works. A kernel is a kernel.


> I have found the email server upgrade patches... but these do nothing for the
> underlying OS, so far as I can tell.