Re: What are YOUR reason to run openSUSE (Re: How to obtain older rpm?)

David Bolt wrote:
I wish I would have kept all the manuals, because in the earlier
versions there was a description on how to write a Linux virus

There was?

I am sure of it. That does not mean it is actualy true though. I am also
sure that I will live forever and am good looking. :-D

I got one. What I would like is that they send a USB with an image
instead of a boxed set.

A choice would be a nice thing.

They send a poll with the question of what you would like as an
alternative to a boxed set as a gift. USB key with openSUSE installed
was one, t-shirt was another.
I think they might not yet do it for two reasons.
1) The boxed set is cheaper for them
2) There is no good upgrade installation for the USB key as it places an
image on it, overwriting your /home.
That would mean you must first back up /home and perhaps other files as
well, place the image and set things back.
When they give you an USB key, they might get slammed with calls of
people who lost their data.

Hey, I do. Don't laugh. See that red colour when you log in as root in
CLI? That took about 2 years development. (OK, nagging is more like it.)

I think they finally did that to stop the nagging :-)

I am sure of that as well.

Not to forget about having a separate /home ...

Well, that as well. That was much faster.

* Would it not be a good idea to have a seperate /home
- Yeah it would, but how would we devide it
* <looks at his own system> Like this
- OK. Anybody any better idea? No, ok, this is a go.

I'll look through the others later and see if I can see anything,
however I'm going to guess that it may be from before 7.0[1].

Yeah, could be the 6.* series.
I had a look at that and can't see anything as you describe. Maybe on a
later version, or on one of the earlier ones that I don't have.

I doubt it.

[1] I had a quick look a the old mirror of 5.3, just to see if the docs
there mentioned it, but didn't see anything.

What is the URL again? I can then look myself.

houghi
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