MarkusGMX said the following on 05/21/2013 03:42 PM:
Am 16/05/13 20:26, schrieb DenverD:
On 05/16/2013 05:59 PM, Istvan Gabor wrote:
I have openSUSE 12.1
openSUSE 12.1 sailed past its end-of-life yesterday (cite: http://en.opensuse.org/Lifetime) you should consider moving to a supported version..
What is the best way to move from 12.1 to 12.3 and keep /home (not a partition of it's own) and /var/spool/news ( /var is a partition on a SSD)?
Or is it better to use 12.2 currently and go to 13.1 later on?
Why move? I'm still running 11.4 on my laptop (HP dual core[1]) and happy with it. I'm running 12.3 and 12.2/btrfs on crapped out machines to show it can be done. When I upgraded the laptop from 9.x though 10.x to 11.x to 11.4 I did it all in place. Oh, right, I took backups and poured over the release notes[2]. What you motivation and/or "Business case" for not staying with 12.1? Is there some deficiency? Can you show the 'improvement' will be worth the effort?[3] Maybe you should ask on the factory mailing list. [1] Runs better with 1.25G memory than my single core workstation does with higher clock and 4G of memory. There's a lesson there. Oh, and there's Evergreen - http://en.opensuse.org/Evergreen [2] I was also an early adopter of LVM and gradually converted more and more to that so it was simple enough at one stage to shrink a file system, create the LVM, and move /home to it. [3] Easy for some of us like me, I just pull another piece of junk out of the Closet of Anxieties and load it up ... and see how it goes. Trying out new stuff on clapped out old hardware really tells you if the new s/w is any good. I *know* the HP will run well with whatever I put on it, so there's no point in loading that up. -- How long did the whining go on when KDE2 went on KDE3? The only universal constant is change. If a species can not adapt it goes extinct. That's the law of the universe, adapt or die. -- Billine Walsh, May 18 2013 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org