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The point I think is that it is SERIOUSLY time that SuSE fixed this minor release timewarp it's still in. By rights we, the users and technical installers / upgraders should be able to upgrade between minor releases, only clean install at major ones.
But Jon, seriously, you can do the updates at least the most major ones become incorporated into the last release via the YAST Online Updates... that means you get the functionality w/o having to do clean upgrades .You even eventually get the look and feel of the new version... what you don't get is kernal changes... and other MAJOR changes which, if you don't need them you shouldn't buy it... You can easily do a once per year install of any new/major items OR put your people on the SLES version which is still at 8.0 version ( it's more updated than that but that was the number they decided upon..) that comes w/ some sort of guarrantee that no upgrade is needed for IIRC 3 years... BIg biz should go that way... as they can during that time do any roll outs of hardware changes they wish while at the end of the period, I'd bet money the upgrades can be done in a rolling manner as well. I.e. No major interuptions need take place , w/ a bit of planning. It seems like the minor releases tended to happen and need clean installs, may always need such, because there are major changes to Linux generally. The fact that the commercial companies are trying to sort out any differences in where they put stuff . Now, that sounds minor, but how often have you installed something that wont run, because it's looking for a library or some other bit of code that is located in a different place than , say, Red Hat puts it... And if you are writing programs for Big Biz, or even not so big Biz it's important to know where all that stuff is or there will never be a really wide adoption of Linux. People have to know that when they install things into , say their own home directory, it will be able to locate all the stuff it needs to function. OR they will have to adopt an OS/2 type approach where every program has all it's librabies in it's own directory... Just my general feelings about this situation, of course, YMMV -- j -- nemo me impune lacessit