On Sat, 15 Jan 2005 14:14:50 -0800
<bart at solozone.com> wrote:

> Sorry to return to this theme. I just got the 9.2 UPGRADE and it tells me I 
> must agree to Novell /SuSe upgrade maintenance protection terms available on 
> line: www.suse.de/maintenance
> which gives you a 14 digit number and assume I only guess what I read thru 
> the legalese that you follow their point by point upgrades. I paid $49.99 
> (US) instead of ($79.99). But I do have all the prior stuff 8.2, 9.0, 9.1. 
> So... did I shoot myself in the foot to save $25? Has Novell gone proprietary 
> with this type of restriction which everyone on this list tells me is has NOT 
> (even YAST being open source now)?
> 
> Query: How do you update Fedora, similarly from F C 2 to F C 3??
> I do not have broad band otherwise I could just install from on line their f 
> t p server!
> Bart Alberti
> 

The following article is about updating some of the most popular distros:

http://lwn.net/Articles/50687/

Although it's not very up to date, I still find it very useful.

br
Maciej


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