Re: [opensuse] 10.2 package management

2007-02-26 Thread Andreas Jaeger
Kai Ponte [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:

 On Friday 23 February 2007 08:15:56 pm M Harris wrote:
 On Friday 23 February 2007 12:12, Ross Davis wrote:
  I am trying to decide if I am ready to make the jump from SuSE 9.3 Pro
  to OpenSuSE 10.2.

  You know what?  If it aint broke leave it alone. In other words, if your
 system is running, does what you want, isn't having any trouble, and you
 already like it a lot... well, leave it alone... no need to go to 10.2
 in fact,... I'd stay at 9.3 if I were you...

 ...but the security updates may not be around long. Though I think 9.3 was my 
 favorite version (from 9.1 to 10.1) I am on 10.1 simply because I want the 
 updates. 

 Oh, and on 10.2, I noticed a fairly damming article today:

 http://www.softwareinreview.com/cms/content/view/66/

 It said...

 So Novell fixed the damage done by 10.1., but still has not addressed many of 
 the lingering problems with installation and configuration that have plagued 
 SUSE variants for the operating system's entire history. It's still a decent 

And does not give any details about this.

I consider that article a rant and not a review ;-(
Andreas
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Re: [opensuse] 10.2 package management

2007-02-24 Thread James Knott
M Harris wrote:
 On Friday 23 February 2007 12:12, Ross Davis wrote:
   
 I am trying to decide if I am ready to make the jump from SuSE 9.3 Pro
 to OpenSuSE 10.2.
 
   You know what?  If it aint broke leave it alone. In other words, if 
 your 
 system is running, does what you want, isn't having any trouble, and you 
 already like it a lot... well, leave it alone... no need to go to 10.2  
 in fact,... I'd stay at 9.3 if I were you...

   

Of course, 9.3 is or will soon be out of support, so that may be a
factor.  I only update my firewall when the SUSE version it runs is
approaching end of support or I change hardware.  It's currently at
10.0.  When it goes out of support, I'll update to the next to newest
version.


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[opensuse] 10.2 package management

2007-02-23 Thread Ross Davis
I am trying to decide if I am ready to make the jump from SuSE 9.3 Pro
to OpenSuSE 10.2. In terms of package management, here is what I do with
9.3:

1) Copy installation media to file server
2) Periodically mirror updates to file server
3) All client machines have a single installation source: an NFS share
on the file server
4) All client machines have a single update source: an NFS share on the
file server

Is this same setup possible under 10.2?

Thanks,
Ross
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Re: [opensuse] 10.2 package management

2007-02-23 Thread M Harris
On Friday 23 February 2007 12:12, Ross Davis wrote:
 I am trying to decide if I am ready to make the jump from SuSE 9.3 Pro
 to OpenSuSE 10.2.
You know what?  If it aint broke leave it alone. In other words, if 
your 
system is running, does what you want, isn't having any trouble, and you 
already like it a lot... well, leave it alone... no need to go to 10.2  
in fact,... I'd stay at 9.3 if I were you...






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Re: [opensuse] 10.2 package management

2007-02-23 Thread Kai Ponte
On Friday 23 February 2007 08:15:56 pm M Harris wrote:
 On Friday 23 February 2007 12:12, Ross Davis wrote:
  I am trying to decide if I am ready to make the jump from SuSE 9.3 Pro
  to OpenSuSE 10.2.

   You know what?  If it aint broke leave it alone. In other words, if your
 system is running, does what you want, isn't having any trouble, and you
 already like it a lot... well, leave it alone... no need to go to 10.2
 in fact,... I'd stay at 9.3 if I were you...

...but the security updates may not be around long. Though I think 9.3 was my 
favorite version (from 9.1 to 10.1) I am on 10.1 simply because I want the 
updates. 

Oh, and on 10.2, I noticed a fairly damming article today:

http://www.softwareinreview.com/cms/content/view/66/

It said...

So Novell fixed the damage done by 10.1., but still has not addressed many of 
the lingering problems with installation and configuration that have plagued 
SUSE variants for the operating system's entire history. It's still a decent 
desktop operating system, and has one of the industry's best configuration 
frameworks (YaST), but it just doesn't compete with commercial GNU/Linux 
distros like Xandros or Mandriva. It has a hard time competing even with the 
free-of-charge Ubuntu Linux. Indeed, openSUSE is in danger of losing 
relevance in a rapidly evolving market. You can't have poor quality releases 
anymore -- those days of leniency are over. Desktop GNU/Linux is now a mature 
market, and companies like Novell need to start treating it like such.


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Re: [opensuse] 10.2 package management

2007-02-23 Thread Rajko M.
On Friday 23 February 2007 12:12, Ross Davis wrote:
 I am trying to decide if I am ready to make the jump from SuSE 9.3 Pro
 to OpenSuSE 10.2. In terms of package management, here is what I do with
 9.3:

 1) Copy installation media to file server
 2) Periodically mirror updates to file server
 3) All client machines have a single installation source: an NFS share
 on the file server
 4) All client machines have a single update source: an NFS share on the
 file server

 Is this same setup possible under 10.2?

Why not?
Your configuration is not different for 10.2 than it was for 9.3.

The NFS share can have installation repository, update, any other sources that 
you want to include, that is in YaST 3 or more sources, but it should work 
fine as it is mirrored on local net, so you should not suffer from timeouts. 

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