Re: Will applications that run on v9.3 run on v10?

Pat wrote:
You ARE aware that 10.1 is not yet out?

Yes, but it's at RC3 so my plan is (or was rather) to wait untill it's
officially released (which I think should be soon) and actually buy the box
version off Amazon.

Great. Just wanted to be sure.

Good point. I think I'll email the company and ask if they've done any
testing of this app on 10.0 (there's also a user forum I can check with).
If not, then I'll probably go with 9.3 on my primary computer for now (to
play it safe) and maybe install 10.1 on another machine just to see what's
its like.

Depending on the importance of the application (would be nice if you
told us wich one) and the type of support you later except from the
company, use the forum.
If the company does not state on their website that they have tested it
on 10.0, that can also mean they do not give support on any other
version then those advertised.
This means that it could run perfectly on 10.1 ad the moment you call
them for support, they say 10.1 is unsupported.

True. I plan to buy a good reference book (any recommendations?) that I can
go to for such things.

SUSE has very good books on the CD/DVD. Appart from that I have 'Running
Linux' wich is more general.

I have one for Windows XP which has proven very
useful. Of course, there's also the web and newsgroups for the more
esoteric stuff. In that respect I expect Linux to be different than Windows
(but I hope no harder).

It depends on what you expect. After that many years of Windows, it WILL
be harder. For somebody who has no computer experience, there will be no
difference. If you have Windows experience, you have to unlearn a lot of
stuff.

The more Windows experience you havem the harder that it is.
e.g. there is no a: c: d: and so on. Partitions are only important
during installation.
A linux administrator should be able to work in textmode. The reason is
that only that way he can solve things if his GUI is broken. After a
while he also notices that things go faster that way. :-)

Linux is not another kind of Windows. If that keeps Joe Sicpack away.
then so be it. I am not in competion with M$.

I personally would like to see more balance in market place to encourage
software vendors to support multiple platforms. That way you're free to
choose the OS that performs best for the types of software that you use.

Me as well. I choose my OS not in function of that. I choose it in
function of what I want to do with it.

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Let's not be too tough on our own ignorance. It's the thing that makes
America great. If America weren't incomparably ignorant, how could we
have tolerated the last eight years? -- Frank Zappa, in 1988
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