Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (4237 mails)

[Richard <ratcheson@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Saturday 21 August 2004 10:40 am, Jim Sabatke wrote:
> I'd love to do that. As much as I love Linux, people who
> watch me go through constant upgrades to get new versions of
> software, along with all the grief involved, ask me pretty
> often why I put up with that.  Windows users seldom need to
> upgrade their OS to run new software.  Just try to compile
> or install an rpm of the latest gimp.  It's an almost
> endless thread of library upgrades.  I don't really mind
> doing it, but it does get annoying sometimes.
>
> Point is, XP users generally love their systems because it's
> easy.  Installing software is easy.  They put a disk in and
> it does the rest.  They just need to hit "next" a few times.
>
> That said, I'm going to try to get them to setup a proper
> server.
>
> Of course, I haven't discussed performance or security here.

Jim, the thing to do is setup the Linux box with a good solid version, mine 
is using SuSE 9.0, and simply let it work.  If you have it doing all you 
need it to do and it does it reliably, why fool with success by doing what 
may be unnecessary updates?  If you get your jollies doing updates then do 
that to another machine and dont fix the working machine.   

Of course you should watch for security updates and make those as necessary 
but updating for fun should be limited to your 'play' machine.  The old 
adage about don'f fix what ain't broke especially applies to a 
server/router/gateway.

Then you can impress your friends by telling them how long the gateway has 
been up without any problems at all.
Richard