[brlug-general] SuSE......wow who'da thunk it

[CM Banker]

Ain't Open source grand...


I've never tried SuSe but I understand that their  upgrade process improved
markedly when they hired on David Hassllehoff
<http://www.hasselhoff.com/>to hold his hands on the machine that
burns the CDs.   He apparently absorbs
all of the hassle from the process.  Suse
<http://www.vamp.org/Siouxsie/>are new wave trend setters.

In response to this new technique, Microsoft fired up their OS effort on
WindowsXPNextGen <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Bob>  and started
the typical pro-microsoft marketing  campaign<http://www.esquilax.com/baywatch/>
.

I understand Mark Shuttleworth is consulting with both Steven Seagal
<http://www.flickr.com/photos/skyflash/76054061/>and Chuck
Norris<http://www.chucknorrisfacts.com/>to assist in "eliminating" all
trouble with ubuntu upgrades.

Seriously, My children finished upgrading their boxen to Ubuntu 7.10 - no
CD; just a simple command.  As it was network based, it only took a couple
of  hours per box.




Happy Friday...

-Craig


On 10/18/07, willhill <williamhill2 at cox.net> wrote:
>
> Cool.  It sounds almost as easy as apt-get, and is certainly faster.
>
> On Thursday 18 October 2007 4:46 pm, Ronnie Gilkey wrote:
> > [Suse was]  smart enough to resolve all the package
> > dependencies, add a few more, remove some stale / non-existent packages
> > in the new version.  An hour and a half later, I rebooted to find an
> > OpenSuSE 10.2 system with the latest software, and all my user /
> > configuration data in place.  No skips, bumps, nothing, it just worked
> > -- and properly at that.  I had to re-compile one non-distributed Apache
> > module and I was running again.
> > ...
>
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