Re: I might not upgrade to 9, any reason I should?

From: stephan beal (stephan_at_wanderinghorse.net)
Date: 10/24/03 

Date: Fri, 24 Oct 2003 17:26:11 +0200

Preston Crawford wrote:
> I was reading a review the other day that came out and a couple of things
> stuck out to me. Number one, the review said that SuSE 9 came with Gnome
> 2.2. That's definitely a negative. Too soon for the new kernel and

i won't go into details, but here's my 0.02 Euro:

Stick with 8.2. There's not (much) which is really annoying about 9.0 (a few
minor annoyances and installation omissions), but in general i was
marginally happier with 8.1 and 8.2.

That said, upgrade fever is always too tempting. :/

...
> wanto make a system change. I might stick with 8.2. Is there anything
> about 9 that I'm not aware of, that would make me change my mind?

If you're an avid Yast user, suse 9.0 has a much improved yast - the console
version is easier to navigate (IMO) and the X version has lots of new
entries.

Also, if you're an Office user, it appears that OpenOffice has improved
considerably since it's days as StarOffice. (i haven't used it much,
though, so i can't give specifics.)

If you're a developer, the error-highlighting features included in gcc 3.3.1
(suse 9) are really helpful...

Well, okay, maybe the upgrade to 9 isn't such a bad idea after all. The only
things which i consider "broken" since my upgrade from 8.2 to 9.0 are
relatively minor (terminal handling in konsole, e.g., i cannot run 'mc'
from Solaris boxes using konsole anymore, but can from xterm). 

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