Re: openSUSE as small bussiness server



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.

Is Novell that provides the patches or opensuse.org? I mean is Novell
or the comunity the one that decided the 2-year lifecycle? If I choose
to install openSUSE 11 and I dont want to upgrade every six months can
I just wait untill the end of the lifecycle and do upgrades only every
2 years? Will be hard to upgrade after two years of missing upgrades?

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