Richard Bos wrote:

Op zondag 4 januari 2004 17:20, schreef Trey Sizemore:

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I'm looking to transition over to SUSE 9.0 and was wondering how 'up-to-date' of a system I can have. From what I've read, apt-get seems to be one of the primary methods of updating & adding software to the system. Do the repositories contain newer versions of software soon after they're released (Mozilla 1.6b, Evolution 1.5, Gnome 2.4.1, PHP 5.X, etc.)?

Here is a procedure to determine what the contents currently is: http://linux01.gwdg.de/apt4rpm/home.html#contents

The current versions are (for suse-9.0): evolution;1.4.4-86;i586;base evolution;1.4.5-100.SuSE.ulb.1;i586;usr-local-bin evolution;1.4.5-21;i586;gnome2 mozilla;1.4-81;i586;base mozilla;1.4.1-0;i586;gnome2 mozilla;1.4.1-0;i586;mozilla mozilla;1.4.1-0;i586;suse-projects mozilla;1.5-0;i586;mozilla mozilla;1.5-0;i586;suse-projects mozilla;1.5-100.SuSE.ulb.1;i586;usr-local-bin mozilla;1.5-13;i586;suse-people selfphp;1.0.1-176;noarch;base mod_php4-core;4.3.3-50;i586;base mod_php4-devel;4.3.3-50;i586;base mod_php4-servlet;4.3.3-50;i586;base mod_php4;4.3.3-50;i586;base

They are not the ones you asked for. But of course you could provide them yourselves :)

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Pretty simple to update the system en masse?

Yes, it is.

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Thanks, and I'm looking forward to trying it out!

Thanks, Richard. That's a great resource. One last question...if I'm doing an FTP install of SUSE will I be installing the latest version of packages (such as Gnome 2.4 vs. 2.2) from the FTP directory. If not, is it better then to do a minimal install and then apt-get these vs. installing older versions over FTP and then upgrading them? Thanks again.