Re: Update Suse through Yast?

houghi wrote:

Those manuals are still available as PDF, but indeed not as printed
stuff anymore.

That's a shame. If they were available at extra cost I'm sure many
people who downloaded the software for free would happily pay for the
printed manuals.


- Downloaded DVD. Has lots of packages included (although not everything
that is available on the repos) but it's a 4.5 GB download, and you will
probably be downloading lots of stuff you won't actually need.

With 11.1 it is very easy to add repo's like Packman.

Sure.
But even sticking to just the openSUSE repos, the DVD doesn't include
*everything* that is available.


- Live CD. Lets you try it out before you install, comes with enough
packages for a very basic desktop, after it's installed you can download
anything else you need.

I personaly do not like this.

OK to see if hardware works. Or to repair your installed version if
something got messed up. Way too slow to do anything else with.

On 11.1 it needed to download quite a lot after installing, too.

I had burned a DVD of 11.1 when it was released, the DVD was good at
that time but it failed a media check when I tried it last week.
Unfortunately I'd already had to delete the .iso to save hard disk space
(space was very tight under 11.0 as my OSX partition was too large, I've
now shrunk it) so rather than download 4.5GB again I tried the live CD.

In future downloaded .isos will get copied to my backup drive :)


- Net install CD. The smallest initial download, and during installation
you only download the packages you actually want, but the install
process takes a long time unless you have a fast internet connection (in
which case, you might as well download the live CD)

Well, it is slower when you start counting from the moment you boot the
disk. It is faster if you start counting from the moment you start
downloading. You need to download the CD or DVD as well.

Sure. But you can download the live CD, or DVD, in the background while
you do something else. If you need to download 2 or 3 GB of stuff during
the install over a 1mbit line (what I was on until 2 years ago) it will
take a very long time, and you can't work on your computer while this is
going on.


And very soon there will be a lot of other options with SUSE Studio.
I am working on a version that includes MPlayer right now.

I watched the video when the link was posted here a while back, looks a
great idea, the build service is too.

Presumably you won't be able to use Packman's MPlayer in SUSE Studio due
to legal restrictions?



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