Jim Flanagan wrote:
I'm sure this has been asked and answered many times here. If not answered at least discussed to death. But I've not followed much of those discussions, and am now planning on upgrading my 13.2 install to a new one.
Obvious question is, which one?
I am running Leap 42.2 on both my server and the workstation desktops in our observatory. I will keep them with 42.2 until next spring or so. My desktop at home is also 42.2, this one will see an update to 42.3 next week when it's released, and the experience with it will decide when I do the upgrade of the workstations and the servers (maybe already in autumn). My laptop runs TW. While I *really* love it, I wouldn't want it on the servers, not even the workstations. It just has too many updates(*) that require too many restarts of the GUI and/or the whole system. If you don't update you run out of sync with the repos, which can be irritating when packages are no longer refered to as being TW, but 'System Packages'.... (*) can sometimes be several GB of updates per week, which is another reason why I don't run it on my home desktop: slow internet there...
I run two boxes, one as a server and the other just a desktop. I'm upgrading the server first as there is currently no services on it I depend on (I need to start rebuilding that so hence the upgrade).
You mean HW rebuilding? Or only 'installing from scratch'? I did migrations 13.2->Leap, they tend to work, so from scratch is not mandatory. But if you have no crucial (complicated) setup running I'd probably go for the from-scratch. E.g., one of my updated old machines doesn't have the really nice btrfs and snapshot features as it's still running on ext4.
Nothing here is mission critical, just hobbyist type stuff. My experience with openSuse in the past is after taking some time setting up a server, that will run about 2 years with updates, then (not doing upgrades), having to re-install the newer openSuse from scratch then re-building all the server parts. This can be and is a pain.
As mentioned above, you can migrate things without reinstall, but you might miss nice new features.
My feeling right now is to try Tumbleweed as I think it will keep updating itself, and I won't need to do an complete reinstall from time to time. That is a big factor to me, as long as it keeps running.
Well, I've even done updates 42.1->42.2 remotely (i.e., some 5000km away), without issues, just using new repos and 'zypper dup'. Hunting for some .rpmnew and .rpmsave configs is in general all that is needed afterwards.
Considering my situation as being not mission critical, other than not wanting to lose data files etc, is there any reason not to go with Tumbleweed on this?
On my laptop it has proven to be rock solid so far, it doesn't have fancy things like RAIDS though :D. If you don't mind the permanent updates I see no strong reason not to. But if you really would do it only because of the rolling release, I'd probably not do it for a server... Pit -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org