Doug Crompton on 5 Oct 2010 19:56:07 -0700 |
yea I guess. It is ashame because upgrading on a system where you have lots of stuff running is a big deal and would take lots of time. So many things would break. I think MS has done it better on this one. I can still upgrade WinXP for security without breaking anything but a 3 or 4 year old SUSE release is toast unless you want to upgrade. I know it was basically free and has so much more capability than MS. That I won't argue with. Are all Linux distributions unsupported in this way after 3-4 years or is this more a SUSE thing? I would probably not install SUSE again but rather move to a more mainstream flavor like Debian. Doug On Tue, 5 Oct 2010, Brian M. Vagnoni wrote: > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Art Clemons > > Subject: Re: [PLUG] SUSE 10.2 update > ----- Original Message ----- > > > If I remember correctly OpenSuse supports distributions for 18 months. > > After that, most support, updates and the like disappear. You can > > either upgrade or try to manually update packages with known security > > holes or packages with big improvements in behavior. Wasn't 10.2 > > released in either 2007 or 2006? > > Yes, Opensuse is up to 11.3, you should consider upgrading. > > Brian Vagnoni > ___________________________________________________________________________ > Philadelphia Linux Users Group -- http://www.phillylinux.org > Announcements - http://lists.phillylinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-announce > General Discussion -- http://lists.phillylinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug > **************************** * Doug Crompton * * Richboro, PA 18954 * * 215-431-6307 * * * * doug@crompton.com * * http://www.crompton.com * **************************** ___________________________________________________________________________ Philadelphia Linux Users Group -- http://www.phillylinux.org Announcements - http://lists.phillylinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-announce General Discussion -- http://lists.phillylinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
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