On Sunday 14 November 2004 01:34, Leendert Meyer wrote:
On Sunday 14 November 2004 00:19, Andrew Betts wrote:
I'm very happy with SUSE 9.2.
That's what I like about SUSE - they keep packages very up to date.
Hmm, not quite true... Mysql 4.1 is available (I was looking forward to it), but SuSE is still at 4.0.*. There was another package that was spoken about recently, but I forgot which one.
Note that suse's packages usually come heavily patched with bug fixes and sometimes even feature additions from later versions. So for instance suse's gcc 3.3 has many things from 3.4, and their kernel 2.6.8 isn't the same as kernel.org's 2.6.8, but has parts from 2.6.9, not to mention their own patches. This isn't a comment on the specific case of mysql, I'm not familiar enough with it to say, but I can say that it's frequently not enough to just look at the version number