SUSE Linux 9.0 Professional Update - night 1

[Roger Oberholtzer]

On Thu, 2003-11-13 at 21:03, Andrew L. Gould wrote:
> On Wednesday 12 November 2003 02:56 pm, Bruce Marshall wrote:
> > On Wednesday 12 November 2003 15:34 pm, Roger Oberholtzer wrote:
> > > Has anyone done an update to an existing 8.2 system? Or will I be in a
> > > bad mood tomorrow evening?
> >
> > I don't do updates anymore...  just new installs but no one over on the
> > SUSE list has had any real problems with an update.  Most go just
> > flawlessly and the others may have a niggle or two.
> 
> How do the existing distros compare regarding upgrades of
> 
> 1. the core system?
> 2. applications external to the core system?

SuSE will update those that there are updates for, as well as remove
those that are no longer supported. It will also backup everything it
changes. I have not tried that. But it offered to do so. You have total
control over which packages are treated which way. I think SuSE, at
least, are decently recent with the versions of software. At least the
stuff I use. They even included a 2.6 kernel that you can install and
play with. It's on my list.

Still, I am a Gentoo fan at heart. I don't have the time to make a
Gentoo-based distro that I can install on all production systems. So
SuSE fits in there. But at home, it is Gentoo all the way!


-- 
Roger Oberholtzer <roger at opq.se>