On Wed, 2005-06-01 at 10:27 -0500, Jon Nelson wrote:
On Wed, 1 Jun 2005, Patrick Shanahan wrote:
Fine discorse. You are to be congratulated. You are slamming one of the few SuSE employes active on the list.
OK, I deserved that. I didn't read closely enough. Blame it on lack of sleep, mea culpa. CLEARLY he described what it's for, and I'm to blame for misreading his response. I certainly didn't intend to "slam" anybody, there is a huge difference between a difference of opinion and a personal attack.
That issue aside, I think I've raised some questions that got lost in the noise, specifically the item about SuSE's inability to be upgraded while running. Additionally, Hartmut seems to agree that it's confusing to have an item "System Update" that doesn't appear to function as "many people" believe it does, and I feel that it's a problem. Fundamentally, it's not as big of a problem as the inability to upgrade while running, however.
What is so important that you -have- to upgrade while the system is running? It is always better to upgrade a non-running system. Update is different. There are far more things changing under the hood than you think which is why you should boot to the install media do upgrade. -- Ken Schneider UNIX since 1989, linux since 1994, SuSE since 1998 "The day Microsoft makes something that doesn't suck is probably the day they start making vacuum cleaners." -Ernst Jan Plugge