Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (1213 mails)

[HG <hg.list@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi!

On Sat, Apr 7, 2012 at 11:19 PM, Greg Freemyer <greg.freemyer@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Sat, Apr 7, 2012 at 12:36 PM, HG <hg.list@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > Hi!
> >
> > On Sat, Apr 7, 2012 at 7:25 PM, Patrick Shanahan <paka@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > > First question is, which "version?" I mean, just the regular, some
> > > > evergreen or tumbleweed?
> > >
> > > evergreen is particular opensuse versions designated for longer term
> > > support by volunteers.
> > >
> > > tumbleweed is "rolling release" supported primarly by Gregg KH,
> > > gregkh@xxxxxxx.
> > >
> > > I have a server running 11.2-evergreen and have been satisfied.
> >
> > Since I'm currently running 11.3, I can't really go down. Would be
> > really difficult. Might as well go up... as it seems that there will
> > not be 11.3 evergreen.
> >
> > > imnsho, either would be a good choice.  Evergreen is targeted at five
> > > years, iirc, and you would probably be replacing hardware about then.
> > > Tumbleweed will last as long as it is popular.  Both depend on supporters.
> > >
> > > For a home server w/o outside access, I would guess any version would do
> > > as long as you don't have hardware difficulties.
> >
> > I do have outside access (ssh, regular web some times and some times
> > some experimental node.js services). Still I'm not that worried about
> > not getting updates, but the problem is that I cannot install stuff
> > anymore on the 11.3 as the repos have somehow disappeared.
> >
> > Sounds like evergreen would be better supported but as I'm not on
> > supported version of that, I should probably go for 12.1 and
> > tumbleweed?
> >
> > --
> > HG.
>
> In your shoes, I would update to 11.4  (I just did that a couple weeks
> ago for one my small fileservers).

How should I go about the installation? Will 11.3 upgrade to 11.4
nicely? What about 12.1?

Or should I write down all settings from users, samba, ssh, mediatomb,
and all other services that I can think of and wipe the disk
completely and do a clean install?
What about the user preferences, such as kde preferences, somewhere in
home dir? If the KDE is updated, will those mess it up? If so, how to
get around it? Delete all dirs starting with .? Or, actually re-create
all users to different directory and then just copy all folders that
sound like they contain data (like Documents)?

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HG.
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