m'gosh, I forgot the most important thing: Kernel 2.4! Yes, some people (like me) actually want an RPM that's made for SuSE and has SuSE's patches. At 04:37 PM 2/9/2001 -0600, you wrote:
At 05:09 PM 2/9/2001 -0500, you wrote:
What I want to know is why are people upgrading? If it's because you need something new thats one thing but I get the impression alot of the upgrading is just to stay up with fashion. If it isn't broke don't fix it. Unless you need something major like glibc why not just grab the odd thing that really needs to be upgraded?
1. Newly supported hardware (don't kid yourself, new hardware comes out all the time) 2. Ever tried to get something like GNUcash working on SusE? it's more then a causal rpm -ihv. Somethings just don't work good. New SuSE means new packages that you didn't have before. Not everyone can fight through dependencies, and even fewer want to. 3. Updates to YaST. Yes, it really matters 4. Updates to XFree86 means more sported video cards, and new features, like, in 7.0's case, the first version of X 4.x with multiple monitor support, and in 7.1's case, many bugfixes to the "new" X version 4, plus new anti-aliasing fonts (er..right? I hope so)....yes, that matters to people like artists. 5. First time SuSE comes with KDE2 all set up. Nor more installing, then downloading 200 MB of updates and patching away for an hour or so before you can get to real business 6. New version == new version of most packages (how many times have we seen people scream for perl 5.6 on this list?). Yes, people want new versions of packages because they'll have bug fixes and usually new features 7.If you upgrade something as major as glibc you'll often have trouble with other packages. Same with, say, a new versino of gcc. it's best to upgrade everything at once.
I'm sure there's more reason but I'm out of time..... new books and manuals...another box for your private SuSE collection (I have every one since 6.3)....oh, and new stickers!!! :-)
Nick
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