Doug Crompton on 5 Oct 2010 19:56:07 -0700


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Re: [PLUG] SUSE 10.2 update


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
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