I ahve just finished D/L 10.1 and are ready to use it. What is the recommendation is it better to upgrade version 10.0 or blow it away and install 10.1 anew. Normally I would just start afresh but I do have a lot of stuff installed on the box and I wonder if I would be better off upgrading seeing its only a minor upgrade. What do others think? - Ron Wilson
On Monday 22 May 2006 09:22 pm, ronw@paradise.net.nz wrote:
I ahve just finished D/L 10.1 and are ready to use it. What is the recommendation is it better to upgrade version 10.0 or blow it away and install 10.1 anew. Normally I would just start afresh but I do have a lot of stuff installed on the box and I wonder if I would be better off upgrading seeing its only a minor upgrade. What do others think?
- Ron Wilson
I always do a fresh install..... Just my $.02
Perhaps I'm naive concerning Suse *, but if one has a nicely configured system, what's the purpose of updating if I'm current? FWIW, I've been using Suse 10.0 for about a year. I love how I don't require an entire day just to compile KDE! :) * This is my 4th distro (RedHat 5.0, Debian 3.x & Gentoo 2004.0). Debian & Gentoo did not require re-installation, just regular updates. I always do a fresh install..... Just my $.02
gonzlobo wrote:
Perhaps I'm naive concerning Suse *, but if one has a nicely configured system, what's the purpose of updating if I'm current?
FWIW, I've been using Suse 10.0 for about a year. I love how I don't require an entire day just to compile KDE! :)
* This is my 4th distro (RedHat 5.0, Debian 3.x & Gentoo 2004.0). Debian & Gentoo did not require re-installation, just regular updates.
I always do a fresh install..... Just my $.02
The next big thing will be SuSE 10.2 or SuSE 11? I think that 11 will be good for the time of KDE 4... and 10.2 for a good polished version with KDE 3.5. Bugs always starts with 0 (don't know why SuSE 9.3 came so buggy)
On Mon, 2006-05-22 at 21:23 -0600, gonzlobo wrote:
Perhaps I'm naive concerning Suse *, but if one has a nicely configured system, what's the purpose of updating if I'm current?
FWIW, I've been using Suse 10.0 for about a year.
Since 10.0 has only been out about 7 months I doubt it.
I love how I don't require an entire day just to compile KDE! :)
It is nice to have the packages available for download. -- Ken Schneider UNIX since 1989, linux since 1994, SuSE since 1998
Thanks for the useful comments, idiot. On 5/23/06, Ken Schneider <suse-list2@bout-tyme.net> wrote:
On Mon, 2006-05-22 at 21:23 -0600, gonzlobo wrote:
Perhaps I'm naive concerning Suse *, but if one has a nicely configured system, what's the purpose of updating if I'm current?
FWIW, I've been using Suse 10.0 for about a year.
Since 10.0 has only been out about 7 months I doubt it.
I love how I don't require an entire day just to compile KDE! :)
It is nice to have the packages available for download.
-- Ken Schneider UNIX since 1989, linux since 1994, SuSE since 1998
-- Check the headers for your unsubscription address For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the archives at http://lists.suse.com Please read the FAQs: suse-linux-e-faq@suse.com
On Tue, 2006-05-23 at 10:18 -0600, gonzlobo wrote:
Thanks for the useful comments, idiot.
On 5/23/06, Ken Schneider <suse-list2@bout-tyme.net> wrote:
On Mon, 2006-05-22 at 21:23 -0600, gonzlobo wrote:
Perhaps I'm naive concerning Suse *, but if one has a nicely configured system, what's the purpose of updating if I'm current?
FWIW, I've been using Suse 10.0 for about a year.
Since 10.0 has only been out about 7 months I doubt it.
I love how I don't require an entire day just to compile KDE! :)
It is nice to have the packages available for download.
First off you cannot use something for longer than it has been available. As far as the KDE packages being available it -is- a nice feature that someone can add a source to package management and have all of the dependencies taken care of for you without having compile anything. Name calling and top posting are two things that are _NOT_ well tolerated on this list. Please stop using either one. -- Ken Schneider UNIX since 1989, linux since 1994, SuSE since 1998
On Tuesday 23 May 2006 12:18 pm, gonzlobo wrote:
Thanks for the useful comments, idiot.
My, what a professional attitude.
On 5/23/06, Ken Schneider <suse-list2@bout-tyme.net> wrote:
On Mon, 2006-05-22 at 21:23 -0600, gonzlobo wrote:
Perhaps I'm naive concerning Suse *, but if one has a nicely configured system, what's the purpose of updating if I'm current?
FWIW, I've been using Suse 10.0 for about a year.
Since 10.0 has only been out about 7 months I doubt it.
I love how I don't require an entire day just to compile KDE! :)
It is nice to have the packages available for download.
-- Ken Schneider UNIX since 1989, linux since 1994, SuSE since 1998
-- Check the headers for your unsubscription address For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the archives at http://lists.suse.com Please read the FAQs: suse-linux-e-faq@suse.com
On Tue, 2006-05-23 at 20:25 +0200, Per Jessen wrote:
gonzlobo wrote:
Thanks for the useful comments, idiot.
Might I suggest you take that attitude elsewhere - perhaps a webforum if you so desire. Around here it isn't likely to get you anywhere.
/Per Jessen, Zürich
Won't fly around here either...(suseforums.net), so maybe we could leave out the alternate destination recommendation next time? :) Keith -- Keith Kastorff kastorff@yahoo.com
Keith Kastorff wrote:
On Tue, 2006-05-23 at 20:25 +0200, Per Jessen wrote:
gonzlobo wrote:
Thanks for the useful comments, idiot.
Might I suggest you take that attitude elsewhere - perhaps a webforum if you so desire. Around here it isn't likely to get you anywhere.
/Per Jessen, Zürich
Won't fly around here either...(suseforums.net), so maybe we could leave out the alternate destination recommendation next time? :)
I sincerely apologise. My comment was in no way meant as derogatory to webfora of any kind. /Per Jessen, Zürich
On Monday 22 May 2006 21:22, ronw@paradise.net.nz wrote:
I ahve just finished D/L 10.1 and are ready to use it. What is the recommendation is it better to upgrade version 10.0 or blow it away and install 10.1 anew. Normally I would just start afresh but I do have a lot of stuff installed on the box and I wonder if I would be better off upgrading seeing its only a minor upgrade. What do others think?
Note: This is just my opinion. YMMV and other people have had very different experiences. I would *not* 'blow out' 10.0 to make room for a 'fresh' 10.1 installation. I would *not* upgrade 10.0 either. I would find/add room to install 10.1 in parallel and keep my heavily customized 10.0 for 'daily' use. With this approach, I buy some time to learn about some of the fairly major changes implemented in 10.1. There are also some sorely needed patches in the pipeline. Don't get me wrong... I'm really excited about 10.1. It is definitely much "snappier" on my system and it has a great 'fit and finish'... but there are a number of newly introduced potential headaches. Pay particular attention to posts here on non-GPL drivers, dropped 'legacy' graphics adapter support, the new security updates system, difficulties setting up LCD displays and/or problems configuring graphics with SaX2. I've seen a couple of other possible trends discussed here since the release but they escape me right now. My principal system is presently 10.0 and it's running beautifully. I have a 'smoothly configured' 9.3 as a fallback... installed in parallel. I have an almost 100% joy 10.1 installed in parallel, too, but I'm still not ready to make it my 'daily' system. hth & regards, Carl
On Monday 22 May 2006 10:06 pm, Carl Hartung wrote:
Note: This is just my opinion. YMMV and other people have had very different experiences.
I would *not* 'blow out' 10.0 to make room for a 'fresh' 10.1 installation.
This is what I meant to imply. Yes, do it in parallel.
I would *not* upgrade 10.0 either.
On Monday, May 22, 2006 @ 8:22 PM, Ron Wilson wrote:
I ahve just finished D/L 10.1 and are ready to use it. What is the recommendation is it better to upgrade version 10.0 or blow it away and install 10.1 anew. Normally I would just start afresh but I do have a lot of stuff installed on the box and I wonder if I would be better off upgrading seeing its only a minor upgrade. What do others think?
- Ron Wilson
I did an upgrade today and had 0 problems, as far as I can tell. Mind you, I don't have any non-GPL drivers (as far as I know). My monitor is about 4 years old and it looked just the same after the upgrade as before (no problems whatsoever). As far as the new update procedure, when I installed, the installation automatically went out and picked up all of the latest updates with no problems. Whenever the new "software updater" notifies me that there are updates available, I plan on just going straight to YaST/YOU and not going through that software. Maybe that way I'll avoid some of the problems others have had when/after going through this new updater. Of course, I have a pretty nice menu driven disaster recover system that I can use to recover the last complete system backup I made, so I could have quite easily gone back to my 10.0 system if things were really bad and I couldn't work through the problems. That being the case, I didn't really have anything to risk in at least giving the update option a try. Greg Wallace
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