On 02/09/2019 07.23, Doug McGarrett wrote:
On 09/02/2019 01:05 AM, Basil Chupin wrote:
On 2/9/19 5:04 am, Doug McGarrett wrote:
(Having said that, the question arises: what will happen when Leap 15.2, due out next May, is released?)
BC
THAT'S why I won't install Leap. I used a rolling release for years-- actually two rolling releases, first KDE4, then KDE5 and only the once did I have to reinstall everything. And then they castrated PCLOS, they took out a whole batch of apps and made it impossible to install them from other sources, and that['s why I'm here.
--doug
You have the wrong idea about Leap.
When a new version of Leap comes out -- eg, 15.2 next May -- one only needs to first alter the names of repositories to reflect the ones for the latest version and then execute as root 'zypper dup' on a command line and the current Leap (say, 15.1) will be updated to (say) 15.2.
See https://en.opensuse.org/SDB:System_upgrade#1._Check_if_the_update_repository....
QED.
BC
I think, Basil, you have my best interests at heart, but I believe that Suse would not be making Tumbleweed unless it wanted a rolling release, which is what I want. I've fiddled around with Linux versions that expire every so often, and I don't want to get trapped in one of them. It's a real pita to go out and find and get and reinstall all the things you are used to using, including your screen background,
I have the same screen background for about a decade, and I'm not using tumbleweed. I never had to install fresh this system since 1999.
particularly if you find that those apps are no longer available, as PCLOS did to me.
That will not happen within Leap 15.*. It may when change to Leap 16, which is long ahead, after Leap 15.3 probably.
That's why I'm trying to get used to this Tumbleweed version, which I hope to be running until I die. (I'm almost 82 right now.) I sincerely hope that what is working now, will work for the rest of my life without reinstalling anything, and I hope that I will get the scanner running, even if I have to buy the app. Or use Windows--achhh!
--doug
-- Cheers / Saludos, Carlos E. R. (from 15.0 x86_64 at Telcontar)