I dunno about the empire, I've _never_ upgraded across several (or one) M$ release successfully. I think they're still lacking in that department as our many other operating systems.
I think the SuSE development team just has a good handle on cataloging RPM changes (what's new, what's obsolete, what package names changed, etc.) and how to preserve package configurations properly. Ronnie -- Puryear Information Technology, LLC Baton Rouge, LA * 225-706-8414 http://www.puryear-it.com Visit http://www.puryear-it.com/publications.htm to download your free copies of: "Best Practices for Managing Linux and UNIX Servers" "Spam Fighting and Email Security in the 21st Century" EdsLinuxBox wrote: > It undoubtedly went so well because of the "deal" executed between Novel > and The Evil Empire. Were it not for that "deal", you would have surely > borked your installation. :) > > Ed > > > On Thu, 2007-10-18 at 20:18 -0500, willhill wrote: > >> Cool. It sounds almost as easy as apt-get, and is certainly faster. >> >> On Thursday 18 October 2007 4:46 pm, Ronnie Gilkey wrote: >> >>> [Suse was] smart enough to resolve all the package >>> dependencies, add a few more, remove some stale / non-existent packages >>> in the new version. An hour and a half later, I rebooted to find an >>> OpenSuSE 10.2 system with the latest software, and all my user / >>> configuration data in place. No skips, bumps, nothing, it just worked >>> -- and properly at that. I had to re-compile one non-distributed Apache >>> module and I was running again. >>> ... >>> >> _______________________________________________ >> General mailing list >> General at brlug.net >> http://mail.brlug.net/mailman/listinfo/general_brlug.net >> > > > _______________________________________________ > General mailing list > General at brlug.net > http://mail.brlug.net/mailman/listinfo/general_brlug.net > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://mail.brlug.net/pipermail/general_brlug.net/attachments/20071019/979bfd54/attachment-0001.html
