Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (1213 mails)

[HG <hg.list@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi!

I've been running openSUSE since S.u.S.E. (I think it was spelled like
that) 8.0 both in work as well as home. And I've always had problems
in updating the system at home - where I can't just buy a new server
every other year. Currently I'm still running 11.3 which has degraded
really badly. I've reached EOL with openSUSE previously, but never has
the repos disappeared or died like now. So, it's painfully clear that
I need to update.

First question is, which "version?" I mean, just the regular, some
evergreen or tumbleweed? The last 2 ones are strange to me, I don't
know them but they sound like they finally have a goal of being around
a little longer. I'm not really interested in office software, but
server software like samba, printing and mediatomb. I do also run
experimental development things there (like node.js + mongoDB/redis)
as well as media encoding.

Despite updating the servers many times, I still don't know how it
should be done. I've always done it somehow differently :-}
I have 4 data disks (2 data + 2 backup, no raids) and system running
on separate physical disk. How should I do it? A) do clean install on
the system disk (and hope nothing happens to the data disks) and loose
all settings on samba, mediatomb and all other serversoftware? or B)
try some "update" from the installer? While there are many users, I
think I'm probably the only one who logs in graphically... so will KDE
be completely screwed up because of the old settings if I do update?
Or how should I go about this?

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