I can update the packages of my SuSE 8.2 with yast2... but what will happen when SuSE 8.3 is released? Will there still be up-to-date packages available? Will it somehow be possible to update to SuSE 8.3 _without_ buying a new SuSE package ?
* Philip May (philip-may@t-online.de) [030720 15:33]:
I can update the packages of my SuSE 8.2 with yast2... but what will happen when SuSE 8.3 is released? Will there still be up-to-date packages available?
Yes, keep 8.2 up to date or you might have a security breach or something close. There is at least 1 security update for the 2.4.20 kernel that I know of. Yes, they will support 8.2 until it's 4th from newest in release so you've got quite a bit. This means they will update for security patches...so don't take that as they will build say KDE 4.0 packages when 9.2 is current (future tense) .. but if there is a security flaw in something that is needed such as SSH, NFS or the kernel then yes they will upgrade those.
Will it somehow be possible to update to SuSE 8.3 _without_ buying a new SuSE package ?
What do you think? ;) -- Ben Rosenberg ---===---===---===--- mailto:ben@whack.org ----- If two men agree on everything, you can be sure that only one of them is doing the thinking.
SuSE generally patches the release for two years for the non-enterprise version. You can purchase support for up to five years for the enterprise versions. The future is a great unknown but you can usually do an ftp install after the release has been out for an month or two for the i386 release of SuSE. for more information on downloads check: http://www.suse.com/us/private/download/suse_linux/index.html On Sunday 20 July 2003 05:34 pm, Philip May wrote:
I can update the packages of my SuSE 8.2 with yast2... but what will happen when SuSE 8.3 is released? Will there still be up-to-date packages available?
Will it somehow be possible to update to SuSE 8.3 _without_ buying a new SuSE package ?
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