Hi, Normally I am a fan of doing fresh installs (due to very bad experiences with RedHat in the past), but I must say SuSE have managed to make upgrading from distro to another quite painless. This is my scenario. Work: 2 x Linux Servers (A firewall, and a SMS server with Big Brother) that provide Critical Business services. 1 x Linux Desktop 1 x Linux Laptop (My own property so it goes home with me). Home: 2 x Linux Servers (Basically a PDC and a Source Code repository, and my Quake2 and Quake3 servers ;)). 2 x Linux Desktops. Now normally I do fresh installs on my desktops and my laptop, because it forces me to clean up the hardrives and archive all the normall stuff that accumulates on a machine that you work with daily. The servers however are a different story, my servers at home I re-install because once again I can clean up old code and archive to 4mm DAT whatever I don't use anymore. The servers at the office basically have a 24x7x365 service offering, so re-installing from scratch is not an option. We use the upgrade facility here (albeit there is no KDE and other stuff on these machines so upgrading is extremely painless), we upgraded our firewall and sms server to SuSE 8.0 a while ago (no upgrade to 8.1 because things take time to get to South Africa) and then machine has continued to perform since then. In my personal experience I would do an upgrade on machines without X and KDE, etc, as there is less of a chance of things going wrong. Do fresh installs on machines with X and stuff like that, although on the odd occassion I have done an upgrade on desktops and it has been extremely painless. In the end it is entirely up to you on wether you perform an upgrade or fresh install, I have experienced all of the possible scenarios and I definitely congratulate SuSE on an awesome product. Hope this information helps. Q On Tue, 2002-10-08 at 21:08, Scott St. John wrote:
It can't be that easy. After pulling my hair out for weeks with another distro I installed Suse 8.0 today and had the machine running in under an hour. You're kidding, right? It can't be this easy. I might have a social life after all?
Now for the real question. I have a 8.0 box set here, but want to get 8.1 when it hits my Best Buy store so what has been the experience of the group with upgrades? Better to start with a fresh install and keep /home directories or safe to upgrade over 8?
Thanks in advance.
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