ADMIN: SuSE 9.o Pro ISOs for the SxS community

[Roger Oberholtzer]

In our product, we choose a release and stick with it for as long as we can.
This seems to be two or three years. Then we upgrade. The main reason for
this time is that hardware changes, and we must be able to install on new
hardware, as well as allow replacement of hardware in existing systems. When
we used UnixWare, we basically told our customers to have spares of
everything in stock as they my not be available later. One selling point for
our switch to Linux that our customers really liked was that they could stay
current with hardware.

We also have a policy of using our product OS as our daily work OS. Meaning
that our personal desktop OS tend to lag behind. I write this on a Caldera
3.1.1 box. It will become a SUSE 9 box when field testing is finished. We
have been keeping the SUSE boxes 'current' with security fixes from SUSE.
Other than that, no other changes are done.

I want to see if, on a test system, we can also update specific packages and
maintain our quality control. Toward that end, I was exploring how SUSE
make these non-security updates available and how (if) their install is
integrated into the SUSE desktop in SUSE 9 Professional. Thus, my question.

I guess I will have to look to see if this is an add-on product.


On Tue, 04 May 2004 22:37:06 -0400
Matthew Carpenter <matt at eisgr.com> wrote:

> My approach is pretty COL-centered.  Install what you need, fix the 
> security issues and bugs as they arise but don't make drastic changes in 
> the process.  eg. COL updated packages with the exact same version as 
> before, simply applying the appropriate patch.  This made their packages 
> pretty static, unlike everybody and their Monopolistic Brother, who have 
> had a tendency of breaking more than they fix...
> 
> Roger Oberholtzer wrote:
> 
> >On Sat, 2004-05-01 at 20:37, Matthew Carpenter wrote:
> >
> >  
> >
> >>Honestly, I gave up on getting new KDE packages for canned systems from 
> >>the vendor back with COL eD24.  I remember when I upgraded to KDE2 and 
> >>thought it was great... except that I lost all the integration that 
> >>Caldera put into them, such as their tools being integrated with KDE. 
> >> Other additions have been made to make the system overall better and 
> >>I'd hate to lose those.  So I'm still on the KDE3.1 on all my boxen, 
> >>8.2pro and 9.0 pro both.  Sorry I'm not much help there.
> >>
> >>I do, however, run YOU on a daily time schedule. 
> >>    
> >>
> >
> >That would be the security fixes only, I would think. I wonder what
> >SUSE's intent is with all the other fixes an updates they do. They are
> >on the site for download, but not in any manageable manner. Or so it
> >seems to me.
> >
> >
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