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[Richard Meyer]

On Thu, 2006-07-20 at 21:29 +0800, Denis Brown wrote:
> At 10:20 AM 19/07/2006, Tomasz Grzegurzko wrote:
> >I'm in too. Novell always have impressed me, this should be excellent..
> 
> <distro-war = NO>
> 
> FWIW I've just installed SuSE 10.0 and 10.1 and found the installs went 
> without a hitch, correctly identifying hardware (IBM boxes; an older 
> desktop and an Intellistation M-Pro) automount USB drive, blah, 
> blah.   Also did an Ubuntu 6.06 install which also went smoothly but failed 
> to automount the USB drive for some reason.
> 
> Updates on both were painless.   Must admit still to a liking for Debian / 
> Ubuntu / whatever's apt-get but the SuSE offering comes quite close.   Yes, 
> I'm impressed too with what Novell / SuSE have done.
> 
> One point in question re SuSE is a "distro upgrade".   In Debian-ese this 
> is as easy as apt-get dist-upgrade but has anyone found out how to take, 
> for example, SuSE 10.0 to 10.1 in the same vein?

#define DISTRO_WAR FALSE

I read about someone using apt to upgrade SUSE from 8.x to 9.x (IIRC) -
it required a few circumlocutions, but then it worked really well, but I
haven't heard of anyone doing the upgrade you mentioned.

Probably just as well that Debian is easy to upgrade - it was an
absolute pig to install  ;-) so doing it once was probably enough. - -
OK I'm talking as someone who has installed and run Slackware in the
kernel 1.0 days - I can even remember the feeling of running kernel
1.3.20 (like have the squits, and no underwear) - sorta liberating, but
scary at the same time.  ;-)   And I have never had a good Debian
installation experience.
> 
> Denis
> 
Cheers
RM
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