-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 The Sunday 2006-10-15 at 17:43 +0200, Peo Nilsson wrote:
Thanks for the advice. I find it bad that Suse doesn´t ship patches for this serious bugs, so that one can have the update through SUSEWatcher.
You get security updates, and sometimes some very serious bugs. For the rest, you can get newer versions of some things through the repositories. But, first, you are running 10.0, and the main effort is going into 10.2. Second, you found a problem with gnome, and then again, the main effort goes into kde.
It would be much easier for us "newbees" and I think the easier it gets to "manage" the SUSE system the more people would migrate to Linux.
There are very good reasons not to. The issue pops here now and then, but it boils down to not touching the packages except by the minimun, ie, security updates. You can not simply install new versions of packages, expecially libraries, without breaking down dependencies, which means that you have got to replace a lot of things instead of one... you'd better be updating the whole thing. What they do is to monitor the security bugs that are discovered and solved by the developpers worldwide in the new versions (even cvs versions) and correct that particular problem in the version that was distributed, without changing the version number. But, if you are adventurous, you have the respositories with new versions. There is one for gnome somewhere - but I'd recomend you update to 10.1 or wait for 10.2. - -- Cheers, Carlos E. R. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Made with pgp4pine 1.76 iD8DBQFFMmSOtTMYHG2NR9URAviOAJ9lSMBrlmLiCljrzoljdFSgvBG9ggCfSvHN gtXQXrqhYGJlORg0vnLzCrE= =0Xr8 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----