Okay folks, I have been reading all of this traffic about whether or not SuSE is evil and mean for raising the price of their product, and/or not providing the FTP version fast enough to supplicate those who feel that they shouldn't have to pay for the value-adds SuSE provides. Anyway, I don't really plan to take sides in that particular schism, but I would like to raise the point of WHY people upgrade. I would like to ask (rhetorically) why one needs the upgrade to 7.0 Is there something that is so critical within your use of the distro that you must update it now? If so, why are you waiting on SuSE, go update that package yourself. The compiler isn't THAT scary. Are there enough changes all over the distro to justify a major system overhaul to get to the new version? I doubt it. Most people are (as Micro$oft taught them to do) just blindly grabbing any new version of whatever software they use, because it is new, not because it has specific needed upgrades in it. I say this simply because I have been guilty of the same thing. I have more than once incapacitated a production machine of mine simply because I wanted the highest number version of whatever distro I was using at the time. I have found that it is much better, at least for serious use of a machine, to get the latest STABLE distro of your choice when you first set the machine up, and from then on, only update individual packages and programs, as they need it. I have been practicing this plan since around the time SuSE 6.2 came out, having bought several distros previous to that, and I can tell you, this way is much simpler. Anyway, just some thoughts from a guy who rambles too much. BTW: anybody know of a decent hardware RAID for less than $2000? -- *********************************************** Jon Tillman LINUX USER: #141163 ICQ: 4015362 http://www.eruditum.org jon@eruditum.org *********************************************** Be alert, the world needs more lerts *********************************************** -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe@suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/support/faq