Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (2441 mails)

[Ken Schneider <suse-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, 2005-06-01 at 10:27 -0500, Jon Nelson wrote:
> On Wed, 1 Jun 2005, Patrick Shanahan wrote:
> 
> > Fine discorse.  You are to be congratulated.  You are slamming one of
> > the few SuSE employes active on the list.
> 
> OK, I deserved that.  I didn't read closely enough.  Blame it on lack of 
> sleep, mea culpa. CLEARLY he described what it's for, and I'm to blame 
> for misreading his response. I certainly didn't intend to "slam" 
> anybody, there is a huge difference between a difference of opinion and 
> a personal attack.
> 
> That issue aside, I think I've raised some questions that got lost in 
> the noise, specifically the item about SuSE's inability to be upgraded 
> while running.  Additionally, Hartmut seems to agree that it's confusing 
> to have an item "System Update" that doesn't appear to function as "many 
> people" believe it does, and I feel that it's a problem.  
> Fundamentally, it's not as big of a problem as the inability to upgrade 
> while running, however.
> 

What is so important that you -have- to upgrade while the system is
running? It is always better to upgrade a non-running system. Update is
different. There are far more things changing under the hood than you
think which is why you should boot to the install media do upgrade.

-- 
Ken Schneider
UNIX  since 1989, linux since 1994, SuSE  since 1998

 "The day Microsoft makes something that doesn't suck is probably
  the day they start making vacuum cleaners." -Ernst Jan Plugge