I have checked out the pros and cons of most of the majors (new and old) out there and Suse looks like it could suit. It uses RPMS, which I am familiar with, supports KDE well (I hate gnome but love some gnome (GTK) apps), and has a graphical configurator thingy (YAST).
Volker, I assume 9.2 is the latest and greatest and that a copy could be begged borrowed or stolen off of you for testing??? =)
Cheers
Jason
Volker Kuhlmann wrote:
The ltmodem came in with the kernel, I didn't have to make a choice on that one - it installed ltmodem-2.6.2-38.9, the previous was xxx.8 it came down at the same point. I can also assure you that I rebooted as soon as YOU had run the kernel patch.
Then debugging would have to be a bit more hands-on. It's a fault in the update process somewhere, and not yours.
It does seem to be me alone that is having this problem though, which kind of points a finger.
Not really. How many on this list use 9.1 and a Lucent modem?
I was just about to send this and then had a thought - my first kernel download was interrupted and then resumed. I think that this one was too
Wrong tree. Packages are gpg verified before being installed.
Slightly off this topic - do you and the list tend to install a new version, as you installed 9.2 the other day, or continue to patch the old one.
As always, it's a cost/benefit tradeoff: upgrading takes time, but the new version gives newer software you might feel like you can't do without. I skipped 9.0, but upgraded now to 9.2 because I did a bit of betatesting on it. 9.2 is supposed to have significant improvements for mobile computing, I'd also upgrade if I had an Opteron.
Presumably endlessly patching 9.1 won't ever take me to 9.2
Correct. SuSE provides updates for security problems and major bugs for two years. New software versions are provided only exceptionally (e.g. KDE) and in the supplementary area, and is unsupported. After two years you're essentially forced to upgrade unless you don't care about security. By then KDE and everything else probably has so far advanced that you'd want to upgrade anyway.
but I'm getting very attached to this system now.
Then stay with it until you find something it doesn't do.
Volker
