I've been updating my SuSE 7.3 to 8.0 10 days ago.
The update changed some settings, for example it activated netsettings received by a DHCP-Server. I did not use a DHCP-Server before. But when I switched off the DHCP-Option, it showed all the previous Network-Settings - except the own local IP-Adress.
Some Links in the kicker did not work anymore.
Worst is that Ximian Evolution 1.0.3 does not work anymore. When trying to run it tells me, that it does not find the configuration database anymore.
I had no time to fix that (to be more exact: I don't know anymore when I will have time to try to fix that, because Evolution is my PIM (-: ).
During the Update I had a good feeling, because the update routine asked for every single file I expected it to ask for, because I did not install them via YAST2.
The update is not reversible.
Some other small things are broken, too. The KDE-Start-Menu was in german before the update and is now in English, for example. Mozilla 0.9.8 crashes very, very often and often crashes while booting, when it crashed before, till the X-Server is restarted. Before the update Mozilla 0.9.8 crashed maybe once a week.
When installing the available Patches it did not find a patch (menu_fix-1) it recommended for update.
But on the other side, there are no hardware problems, KDE 3 runs really fast and I feel some performance improvements. YAST2 is better than before, but I miss some features from YAST1 (which is not available anymore) or did not find them till now.
I also installed SuSE 8.0 on a new machine and that worked absolutely great - all modern hardware was recognized and worked. Simply worked, without additional drivers as necesary in Windows XP in the same configuration. I was very impressed by that.
Bye
Kuesschen
It is ok for me, that OS-Soft runs under Windows.
But I have reason to not trust Microsoft. They regularly break promises.
They want to use the Open Source Programmers as an additional resource for their Operating System - fine.
But I also share the mistrust of Alan Cox and others, that they may change their politics.
What will we do, if everything works fine for five years, Open Source keeps its market share (why should the MS-Share decrease, when every OS-tool works with Windows and people are accustomed to it?) and then afterwards MS invents a new patented feature, that is only licensed for Windows. And everybody wants to have it. Or they will change their license-policy. Then we will be in a much worse position than we are now - MS will then have the power of MS and the power of Open Source. And most Open Source Programmers will continue contributing to MS, because their programs will continue to run on Windows. And because there will be no technical reasons to migrate to 100 % Free Software, but some technical reasons to migrate to Windows, our share will shrink.
Please think about that!
Timeo Danaos et Dona Ferentes!
küsschen
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I've been updating my SuSE 7.3 to 8.0 10 days ago. The update changed some settings, for example it activated netsettings received by a DHCP-Server. I did not use a DHCP-Server before. But when I switched off the DHCP-Option, it showed all the previous Network-Settings - except the own local IP-Adress. Some Links in the kicker did not work anymore. Worst is that Ximian Evolution 1.0.3 does not work anymore. When trying to run it tells me, that it does not find the configuration database anymore. I had no time to fix that (to be more exact: I don't know anymore when I will have time to try to fix that, because Evolution is my PIM (-: ). During the Update I had a good feeling, because the update routine asked for every single file I expected it to ask for, because I did not install them via YAST2. The update is not reversible. Some other small things are broken, too. The KDE-Start-Menu was in german before the update and is now in English, for example. Mozilla 0.9.8 crashes very, very often and often crashes while booting, when it crashed before, till the X-Server is restarted. Before the update Mozilla 0.9.8 crashed maybe once a week. When installing the available Patches it did not find a patch (menu_fix-1) it recommended for update. But on the other side, there are no hardware problems, KDE 3 runs really fast and I feel some performance improvements. YAST2 is better than before, but I miss some features from YAST1 (which is not available anymore) or did not find them till now. I also installed SuSE 8.0 on a new machine and that worked absolutely great - all modern hardware was recognized and worked. Simply worked, without additional drivers as necesary in Windows XP in the same configuration. I was very impressed by that. Bye Kuesschen
It is ok for me, that OS-Soft runs under Windows. But I have reason to not trust Microsoft. They regularly break promises. They want to use the Open Source Programmers as an additional resource for their Operating System - fine. But I also share the mistrust of Alan Cox and others, that they may change their politics. What will we do, if everything works fine for five years, Open Source keeps its market share (why should the MS-Share decrease, when every OS-tool works with Windows and people are accustomed to it?) and then afterwards MS invents a new patented feature, that is only licensed for Windows. And everybody wants to have it. Or they will change their license-policy. Then we will be in a much worse position than we are now - MS will then have the power of MS and the power of Open Source. And most Open Source Programmers will continue contributing to MS, because their programs will continue to run on Windows. And because there will be no technical reasons to migrate to 100 % Free Software, but some technical reasons to migrate to Windows, our share will shrink. Please think about that! Timeo Danaos et Dona Ferentes! küsschen