On 2018-02-10 21:16, Richard Brown wrote:
On 10 February 2018 at 20:50, Dave Howorth <dave@howorth.org.uk> wrote:
Ok, but my system has been upgraded from SuSE 6.2 upwards (ie, it is much older than 13.x), so it will not work. And I do not use btrfs, either.
Welcome to the 21st century, we have new technologies, built to address the problems with your primitive systems from the dark times.
We think you'll find it interesting here if you adopt our modern ways ;)
Very amusing. But not terribly helpful ...
How does he 'adopt your modern ways' if his system started life before your arbitrary cut off date? Even leaving aside his preference to avoid the 'one filesystem to rule them all' mantra.
There isn't a commercially available operating system in the world that provides endless, retroactive support for systems installed originally N years in the past.
And where do you get the idea that I'm running SuSE 6.4? I'm running Leap 42.3, but the machine had the proper software and hardware upgrades during all that time, in the proper manner and the adequate manner. This is a supported scenario, and you should be proud of it, not criticize it. I'm sure that Windows may claim to support that scenario, but I'm almost sure that it will fail. Bravo! to Linux, and SuSE, SUSE, and openSUSE. On the other hand... My laptop started life with W7 on about 2010, and now has W10, so they also support upgrades... Not hardware upgrades because of Licensing, though. And now W10 is a continuous updated system, like Tumbleweed. So they say. -- Cheers / Saludos, Carlos E. R. (from 42.2 x86_64 "Malachite" at Telcontar)