On Monday, 17 of May 2004 17:08, Adagilson Batista Bispo da Silva wrote:
I'm happy with SuSE 8.0: it's stable and I can connect to internet with my winmodem hsp56 based on the humble pcchips mobo M598lmr, play and record cds, for writing i have Abi Word, and Gnumeric for spreadsheets. Although I want to try newer versions of Abiword, Gnucash, etc. I´m avoiding greater risks for SuSE 8.0. I know some people have to make a clean install and anothers have reported some programs and dependencies became corrupt with upgrades. In addition, restoring the system for a point back is not an idea you could count by if you want to make a downgrade (if repented).
i understand your point very well, as a SuSE user since 6.4. Some versions did a lot of problems after updating and the only solution was to clean install and two days of configuring :-) however between 8.0 and 9.0 with updated kde (i work on ftp version) is a huge gap (exactly speaking 1.0 ;-) and it is worth to install it.
So it was the time to try and compare SuSE with another distro (you never know what you are losing when you don't keep your mind open) at the same time I can check a newer KDE (3.2) and Gnome (2.4). Learning Slackware is just an exercise for increasing my knowledge about linux - "learning is the best way to keep your mind youg" ;)
I'm sure you will be back to SuSE as you like yast :-) all the best, -- Marek Chlopek