Mike McFarlane <mlm@efn.org> writes:
As a relative newbie still getting SuSE 5.3 up and running to my satisfaction, do you think there are any compelling reasons to upgrade to 6.0? I don't think I need the new features, at least not yet, and I feel like I should get more familiar with the current version, and linux in general, before I move on. Any comments from the "oldie's" out there?
MikeM
It is only really important if you are programming --- the libc they are based on is the major difference, (apart from the newer version of X which some people might need for their particular display cards.) The libc in 6.0 --- glibc --- is much more standard complient, has many more functions implimented, particularly in networking, has better thread support, is more efficient and most importantly, is the only version of libc that is going to be further developed (libc-5 is only going to have security bug fixes to it from now on.) So, unless you need some of the newer features, or plan to start C programming, stick with 5.3 until the need to write or compile programs which will compile only with glibc hits you. I plan on upgrading to 6.0 when it comes out myself because of the thread and networking support in glibc. (Linus is still using libc-5 BTW last I heard.) - To get out of this list, please send email to majordomo@suse.com with this text in its body: unsubscribe suse-linux-e