On Thu, 20 Dec 2007, Chris Arnold wrote:- <snip>
>Yes, i like SLED but i keep running into programs that i can not >install b/c it requires newer packages than SLED has. Gtkpod and >gpodder to name only 2 of them! Gpodder 0.10.3 requires newer python- >cairo and pango. I tried to update these using the gnome:stable repo >and it just breaks the entire system. SLED is based upon SUSE 10.1, which should make for a more complex upgrade than upgrading from openSUSE 10.2. That's not to say that it's not possible to do, since it is. What's more, it should be much easier than both the 9.3 and 10.0 to 10.3 upgrades I recently performed. If you're interested, you can find how I performed the 10.0 upgrade, including what to watch out for here: <URL:http://www.davjam.org/lifetype/index.php?op=ViewArticle&articleId=16&blogId=1> While it's not going to be the same, it's going to give you a good idea what to watch for. >I don't like the slow dev on SLED and want to have something that >works. The reason for the slow development of SLED is because of its target environment. It's not aimed towards the home user, but more to the corporate desktop. That's where it's supposed to "just work", and are likely to be maintained by someone other than the user who don't want to do much in the way of making things work. The openSUSE releases are aimed more towards the home user, and they're more likely to want the latest and greatest version of a program. >I will probable just do a fresh install. As suggested, if and when you do the fresh install, add the old /home but make sure the installation system doesn't format it. That way you keep everything there without having to restore from a backup, and the installation system should be kind enough to keep all the user accounts and login details[0] so you won't have to recreate them. [0] Just a little off-topic, but the 10.2, and later, installation system will even keep the details from other Linux distributions if you overwrite them. At least, it did when I overwrote an old Fedora Core 5 installation with openSUSE 10.2. Regards, David Bolt -- Team Acorn: http://www.distributed.net/ OGR-P2 @ ~100Mnodes RC5-72 @ ~15Mkeys | SUSE 10.1 32bit | openSUSE 10.2 32bit | openSUSE 10.3 32bit SUSE 10.0 64bit | SUSE 10.1 64bit | openSUSE 10.2 64bit | RISC OS 3.11 | RISC OS 3.6 | TOS 4.02 | openSUSE 10.3 PPC -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
