Re: openSUSE as small bussiness server

Artificer wrote:
Is Novell that provides the patches or opensuse.org?

openSUSE for openSUSE and Novell for SLE if you look at it very
scrictly.

I mean is Novell or the comunity the one that decided the 2-year
lifecycle?

That is a complete different question. The answer is that it is the
community. Many people of Novell are an extremely important part of that
community.

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?

It is your machine. You decide what to do with it. You can decide to
never upgrade, or upgrade each version or do new installs or run a
different distribution every day or do the security updates yourself for
the next 500 years. It is YOUR machine. YOU must decide what to do.

Will be hard to upgrade after two years of missing upgrades?

Oh boy. The answer has been given multiple time and is true for ANY
upgrade. Backup and try. If it works, great. If not, you do a new
installation and use your backup to restore the data.

As always YMMV. Some hove done it without any problem. Others have
failed. Also it is not possible to know what will happen in 2 years.

houghi
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