crumb wrote:

Am I to understand that as soon as I get a new copy of 6.0, I'll necessarily need to start patching libraries? I still don't even understand libc, glibc, ad nauseum, but I usually can recognize a bottom line. I like SuSE very much, but if 6.0 will be substandard in any way, I'll limp by with my 5.3 evaluation. What is the REAL DEAL here folks. Should a "newbie" buy now or later?

I would buy now, SuSE6.0 will have support for glibc-2.0.6. The next release of SuSE could be several months away, if not more, but were sure to see the glibc-2.1 package update within a month as well as the 2.2.X kernel package seeing as how they are MAJOR releases to the Linux community, whereas lets say pine, netscape, etc, are not major software packages for linux (prolly gonna get flamed for that) but think about it. We have pine, elm, mail, netscape, lynx, etc.. all these other programs to do similar things, whereas the library or kernel package is pretty much about it, there arnt too many other choices to choose from (hope that makes sense). Basically what I'm saying is, seeing as how SuSE-6.0 is going to have the glibc and 2.2.X kernel support built in, any upgrades will be a piece of cake compared to lets say libc5 to glibc or 2.0.X to 2.2.X would be. -- Ec|ipse on EFnet - tomas@primenet.com - <A HREF="http://www.primenet.com/~tomas"><A HREF="http://www.primenet.com/~tomas</A">http://www.primenet.com/~tomas</A</A>> Ec|ipse@|Watcher| - botnet webpage down until further notice Slackware Linux v3.6+ - Kernels 2.0.35/2.2.1 - To get out of this list, please send email to majordomo@suse.com with this text in its body: unsubscribe suse-linux-e Check out the SuSE-FAQ at <A HREF="http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/"><A HREF="http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/</A">http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/</A</A>> and the archiv at <A HREF="http://www.suse.com/Mailinglists/suse-linux-e/index.html"><A HREF="http://www.suse.com/Mailinglists/suse-linux-e/index.html</A">http://www.suse.com/Mailinglists/suse-linux-e/index.html</A</A>>