SoiF wrote:
>
> Hi ..
>
> I 'm wondering how can i upgrade my 5.3 (commercial edition) to a 6.0 version.
> Does I need to buy a another CD distro or can i download the 6.0 somewhere
> (where ?? )
ftp.suse.de or ftp.suse.com
> I don't want to pay every 6 months to have recent distro. Should i leave suse
> for a more free distro like Debian or else ??
Huh? What is more free than an ftp site (a fast one at
that)
or a $2 CD?
> My friend Marc bougth a 5.3 4 weeks ago and he is very hungry about the fact
> that he bougth a obsolete distro but the only available when he bought it !!
>
> This 's sound like a bad dream .. the only version that we can find for free
> (not real free but less money than SuSE) here in france is old RH (5.2 or
> sometimes 5.1 in magazine)
>
> I think this kind of attitude don't realy _help_ the good distribution of LinuX
> in france .. because it's free BUT you have to pay a lot (price of commercial
> distro) to have a uptodate system and that every 6 months .
>
> So my question is what can i do to upgrade my SuSE5.3 ..switch to Debain :=)
If you don't want to buy the commercial distro
every few months you have two options:
1. Buy a GPL CD from www.cheapbytes.com or www.lsl.com
US$1.99
2. Download it from the SuSE ftp server.
Personally I don't mind paying for the commercial
versions as it supports the cause. I do mind paying
retail, and that's why I buy from www.cheapbytes.com -
I get the commercial box for 30% off.
Finally, if you read this list, you'll see that 4 weeks ago,
5.3 was still the current release, and has far fewer
problems than 6.0. This craze about getting the latest
and greatest is a behaviour thrust upon us by money-
grubbing capitalists like Bill Gates that want to soak
us for everything we've got to fix the bugs that shouldn't
have been there in the first place. SuSE is a fine
product, and 5.3 is awesome. Show your friend the volume
of 6.0-related problems and 5.3-related problems.
Come to think of it, why doesn't your friend subscribe to
this list and see these things for himself.
I'm waiting for 6.1 when all the glibc problems
and the kernel 2.2.? bugs are worked out. I use
SuSE 5.3 because it works, and it's stable. Forget
the latest and greatest. Unix has been around for
almost 30 years, and it's surely not obsolete.
Spend the two bucks (US$1.99) - it'll keep you from
feeling angry and it ensures your distro is glitch-free.
Speaking of stable, look what I found in a Windows
easter egg: 27 people worked on the design of Win95;
7 tested it; and 4 made sure it was stable. That
violates everything we've learned in my software
design classes. But then, nobody would have a need
to upgrade to Win98 if Win95 worked.
</Rant>
George
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