Carlos E. R. wrote:
Yes, indeed it is "obsolete" but it seems to be just fine for what I need, and considering the rather substantial arguments on the basic structure of SuSE of late, it seems to be just fine for a relatively unsophisticated user like myself. My 9.1 system worked just fine for a very long time until I broke it when I tried to replace a graphics card.
It is up to you, of course, but it is problematic.
You do not get updates, and there are big security problems that were discovered and solved since then which you will not get. Your machine can get compromised, which might concern you not much because "I have nothing of interest here". But they could cause it to malfunction or fail completely (which is a concern to you), or use it as a vector to attack other machines in Internet (which is a concern to "us").
The not getting updates can affect you in other ways, such as needing a browser feature you don't have, or opening a document or video you can not. New formats and features are being invented all the time, people out there will use them, but you will have problems opening the files you get from people.
On my 10.3 workstation, so far there is only one thing that I am missing - I can't transfer pictures from my Nokia D5200 camera over the USB connection. Okay, my openoffice is getting a little old too.
But if you can't live with that, then just find another modern distribution that you like, and use it. But please don't use an obsolete system.
We're surely already way OT, but why not Carlos? Our company firewall ran 7.1 for years, it was only due to ipv6 and later ebtables that we upgraded fairly recently. Only to find out that we had now lost the transparent web cache function due to bug#866443. Going with the bleeding edge isn't always better. -- Per Jessen, Zürich (32.9°C) http://www.hostsuisse.com/ - virtual servers, made in Switzerland. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org