[plug] Upgrade to SuSe 11.4?

[Richard Meyer]

Nope - I was just surprised, since I thought I was the only one - apart
from John, who runs servers.

Anyway, I flirted with Kubuntu and went back to SUSE and 11.3 was just
not working for me - programs would fail - everything from Amarok to
Konsole ..... Virtualbox.

So I tried Kubuntu 10.10 and it's "all right", and I'm still running it
- I don't like it, but it works, so ....

If it suits you keep with it - I would have. I'd been a long-time
fanbooi - starting out with one of the SuSE 5.x releases, going to 6.2,
7.1, 7.3 (still one of my faves) 8.x (yech), 9.1, 9.2, 9.3 (good) ... up
to 10.3 (great) . decided to stay on 10.3 until one day it said "10.3 is
now out of support, there is one more fix available to prepare for
migration to 11.x - do you want it?" -  to which I stupidly said "yes",
at which it de-installed EVERYTHING. Y'know that sinking feeling where
you see the desktop icons changing to KDE default gears one by one?
Well, I do!

Now to tell the boss, who works for an American Big Mean Corporation
that you need a day off to rebuild your machine so you can work - not
great.




On Sun, 2011-03-13 at 09:28 +0800, Marius Brand wrote:
> I am always open to suggestions, however, when I started playing around with
> Linux many years ago I was able to run SUSE on my then Acer laptop.  At the
> time I tried Knoppix and Mandrake but these could somehow not interface
> properly with the laptop, specially not screen display.
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: plug-bounces at plug.org.au [mailto:plug-bounces at plug.org.au] On Behalf
> Of Richard Meyer
> Sent: Saturday, 12 March 2011 5:17 PM
> To: plug at plug.org.au
> Subject: Re: [plug] Upgrade to SuSe 11.4?
> 
> Didn't even know people still used SUSE. I was one of the biggest
> fanboois, but I changed to the dark side late last year. 
> 
> Might give 11.4 a whirl on an old laptop I've got sitting around.
> 
> 
> 
> On Sat, 2011-03-12 at 10:13 +0800, Jim Leven wrote:
> > I would like to move to SuSE 11.4, and I have found a clean
> > installation the best in the past.
> > 
> > However, I would like to maintain a list of the packages that I have
> > installed on 11.3 and pass this to YAST for
> > the 11.4 installation.
> > 
> > Is this feasible, or should I just upgrade 11.3 -> 11.4?
> > 
> > Thanks for assistance!
> > 
> > Jim
> > jleven at geoseis.com.au
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> 

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