Re: openSUSE as small bussiness server

On 2008-09-29, Artificer <eliezerfigueroa@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
First: I would like to thanks all the responses so far. Second I still
got a couple of doubt. Do you mean that the process of upgrading
openSUSE is too complex?

According to my experience upgrading from 10.3 to 11.0 was like a couple
of hours at the beach :)

I've done several upgrades, even 10.0 to 10.2 was quite easy although there
was a version leap. That happened because I skipped 10.1 after trying it
for some time. That's the only version I've skipped after starting to
run Suse as my distro of choice.

This is probably, at least partially, due to my systems being close to
vanilla, only packman stuff added.

Coming from 10.3 to 11.0 was quite pleasant.
There you can change also packman and other extra repos on the fly
during the upgrading installation, so you miss all the "fun" of
temporary depency problems. These dependency problems used to be something
you had to deal with in upgrades prior to 11.0.


the 2 years of lifecycle for openSUSE what
really mean?

It means that after two years from publishing an openSUSE version Novell
stops security patching it.

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