On 15-Feb-99 George Toft a dit .....:
\>
\> 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?
\>
Equal ...
And i can't find the way to make CD with the content of the ftp site ..
If there is a doc somewhere ok .. that good but .. the only thing i saw is
iso.suse.6.evaluation and nothing else ..
I don't have permanent ftp but i can download all the site on my computer and
burn CD next .. but there no doc or help file to do it .. so i think SuSE don't
really want to make it availlable
\>
\> 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.
There is a 6.0 GPL are you sure ??? i saw only 5.3 ..
\> 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.
not me .... pay every 3 month for using my computer it's a bit strong
\> 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.
Yes .. but he (and me too) bougth a SMP card .. so we really want to have
kernel 2.2 on this box . And the smp-faq said that there is a lot of trouble
about libc5 program because of some bugy ltread implementation so ..
Upgrade is the only solution we have .
\> 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.
\>
It 's not a stablility pb . I want to have my SMP work fine with all feature
so i need a kernel 2.2 compliant distro ..
Installing 2.2 on suse 5.3 is too horrible .. lot of rpm are really too old ..
\> 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.
\>
I don't really agree .. because some features on 98 aren't in 95 ..
I don't said that a good or bad thing .
SoaF
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