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lsayre＠en.com

12 Apr 1998 12 Apr '98

02:01

Since I have not yet purchased and installed Linux, and I'm interested in what I'm hearing about SuSE 6.0, should I go ahead and purchase 5.2, then install an upgrade later, or should I wait several months for the release of 6.0 (5.3....)? Will there be a painless and reasonably priced upgrade path? ------------------------------------------- Man's mind is his basic tool of survival! lsayre@en.com <Lawrence Sayre> ------------------------------------------- -- To get out of this list, please send email to majordomo@suse.com with this text in its body: unsubscribe suse-linux-e

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w4oa＠vibroplex.com

12 Apr 12 Apr

03:32

Lawrence Sayre wrote:

Since I have not yet purchased and installed Linux, and I'm interested in what I'm hearing about SuSE 6.0, should I go ahead and purchase 5.2, then install an upgrade later, or should I wait several months for the release of 6.0 (5.3....)?

Will there be a painless and reasonably priced upgrade path?

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lsayre@en.com <Lawrence Sayre> -------------------------------------------

i started with 5.0, got 5.1 as soon as it was available... i wouldn't wait... suse 5.1 is already awsome!!! i have a standing order in for the upgrades... mitch -- ----- Vibroplex, since 1890, the oldest name in ham radio!-------- Mitch" Mitchell, W4OA The Vibroplex Co., Inc. w4oa@vibroplex.com 11 Midtown Park East 334-478-8873, FAX 334-476-0465 Mobile, AL 36606-4141 Visit our website at <A HREF="http://www.vibroplex.com"><A HREF="http://www.vibroplex.com</A">http://www.vibroplex.com ---------------------- Powered by Linux -------------------------- -- To get out of this list, please send email to majordomo@suse.com with this text in its body: unsubscribe suse-linux-e

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arnulf＠geo.uni-bonn.de

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From lsayre@en.com Sun Apr 12 11:39:34 1998 Message-ID: <<A HREF="msg00277.html">35302090.A6DD01F8@en.com</A>> Date: Sat, 11 Apr 1998 22:01:52 -0400 From: Lawrence Sayre X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.05 [en] (Win95; I) To: SuSE Linux Subject: [S.u.S.E. Linux] Buy SuSE 5.2 or wait for SuSE 6.0? Sender: owner-suse-linux-e@suse.com Reply-To: suse-linux-e@suse.com X-Mailinglist: suse-linux-e

Since I have not yet purchased and installed Linux, and I'm interested in what I'm hearing about SuSE 6.0, should I go ahead and purchase 5.2, then install an upgrade later, or should I wait several months for the release of 6.0 (5.3....)?

Will there be a painless and reasonably priced upgrade path?

Hi! I have 5.1 and I think it is really worth the money. 5.2 must be better from what people say. But at the moment I wouldn's say that there is a reasonably priced upgrade path for me from 5.1 to 5.2. The upgrade in Germany costs 800f the new version. This is the price of the students version. If you see it relatively, it's steep, but all in all I assume that suses gain is very sharp calculated. I'd make it depend on the contents of the package. The main differences between 5.? and 6.? will be definitely the libs and maybe the c-compiler , I think. I haven't bought 5.2 because when I felt I needed an update of a program, I got it myself. I expect that upgrading to 6.? will be difficult, when you intend to make a lot changes to the system yourself, these probably will make difficulties. arnulf -- To get out of this list, please send email to majordomo@suse.com with this text in its body: unsubscribe suse-linux-e

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andyford＠fastrans.net

13 Apr 13 Apr

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tulf wrote:

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From lsayre@en.com Sun Apr 12 11:39:34 1998 Message-ID: <<A HREF="msg00277.html">35302090.A6DD01F8@en.com</A>> Date: Sat, 11 Apr 1998 22:01:52 -0400 From: Lawrence Sayre X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.05 [en] (Win95; I) To: SuSE Linux Subject: [S.u.S.E. Linux] Buy SuSE 5.2 or wait for SuSE 6.0? Sender: owner-suse-linux-e@suse.com Reply-To: suse-linux-e@suse.com X-Mailinglist: suse-linux-e

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Since I have not yet purchased and installed Linux, and I'm interested in what I'm hearing about SuSE 6.0, should I go ahead and purchase 5.2, then install an upgrade later, or should I wait several months for the release of 6.0 (5.3....)?

Will there be a painless and reasonably priced upgrade path?

Hi!

I have 5.1 and I think it is really worth the money. 5.2 must be better from what people say. But at the moment I wouldn's say that there is a reasonably priced upgrade path for me from 5.1 to 5.2. The upgrade in Germany costs 800f the new version. This is the price of the students version. If you see it relatively, it's steep, but all in all I assume that suses gain is very sharp calculated.

I'd make it depend on the contents of the package. The main differences between 5.? and 6.? will be definitely the libs and maybe the c-compiler , I think.

I haven't bought 5.2 because when I felt I needed an update of a program, I got it myself. I expect that upgrading to 6.? will be difficult, when you intend to make a lot changes to the system yourself, these probably will make difficulties.

arnulf -- To get out of this list, please send email to majordomo@suse.com with this text in its body: unsubscribe suse-linux-e

One approach is to get a running system, and then just upgrade the things that you need to. You can insert, say, a new kernel into any distribution pretty painlessly (with a little reading and research). That said, leaving well enough alone is the key to a "highly available" system. Of course as soon as I finish this I'll run off and install a bunch of cool stuff that i'll probably never use :) -- yours, Andy -- To get out of this list, please send email to majordomo@suse.com with this text in its body: unsubscribe suse-linux-e

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