On Wed, Oct 26, 2011 at 2:34 PM, Dave Howorth <dhoworth@mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk> wrote:
Having said all that, my personal view is that you'd be better using Ubuntu LTS, since it involves fewer upgrades (i.e. installing new releases). If you have some specific problem with Ubuntu, please tell us what it is so we can advise whether opensuse overcomes it.
There is no specific problem with Ubuntu, it is working good but I wanted to use openSUSE only because one of mine friend told me once (earlier) and claimed that it is for beginners also. According to you, beginners should use Ubuntu LTS but not openSUSE? Though I am new but I hope (not sure, is wrong please let me know) openSUSE could provide me a good start...? On Wed, Oct 26, 2011 at 4:53 PM, Lars Müller <lmuelle@suse.de> wrote:
As I fear this might get read slightly wrong I have to add the pointer to http://en.opensuse.org/Lifetime
Yes, this page say the release update upto 18 months!
PS With my dedicated heart (and remaining brain parts) to free and Open Source Software I have to stress please don't go with Ubuntu.
Some if not most of you might ask why?
Please read http://ebb.org/bkuhn/blog/2010/01/14/ubuntu-debian.html
I respect your suggestion. But then, I just would ask you to please let me know if I should go for Debian or openSUSE, as you say..? On Wed, Oct 26, 2011 at 6:19 PM, Anton Aylward <opensuse@antonaylward.com> wrote:
Mine has. That won't stop me upgrading in the future though :-) The reports I'm getting on the 3.x kernel are very positive.
It means openSUSE is good.
Whatever you do, you then update from the repositories anyway.
I guess, as a beginner, only CD version would be okay for me and it would give me all the basic things, I need to have.
What I did when converting from Mandriva a long while ago was to chose to preserve my /home and let Suse overwrite the rest. That was a dual boot machine.
Very frankly I would be saying that I don't know if /home should be kept or not or what. But just I want to preserve the Windows XP (initially for my sis, who works on it) in this dual booted system. Later after getting small hands on it, I would completely replace the drive with openSUSE. During installation, rather than asking for /home, would it not say me in words? Like 'windows XP' and this is 'openSUSE' which are taking this much of the space...?
You don't RECOGNISE, you tell the installer what to do.
Oh yes, after all, only our brains have made machines and not vice-versa! On Wed, Oct 26, 2011 at 7:53 PM, Will Stephenson <wstephenson@suse.de> wrote:
Dave, this is incorrect. Released distributions are maintained for critical bug fixes and security bugs for the time until the next release (8 months), plus the time until the release after that (another 8 months), plus two months. Work that one out in your copybooks. If you want a longer support period, use Evergreen.
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