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Paul J Gans · External Since: Jun 03, 2004 Posts: 399

DenverD <spam.trap RemoveThis @somewhere.dk> wrote:
>Paul J Gans wrote:

>>>> sigh, i do not like the new 18 month forced jump..
>>>>
>> One does not have to upgrade every time a new release comes out.
>> That is particularly true of Ubuntu.
>>

>Paul, if one upgrades every time openSUSE releases that would be a
>jump every *8* months....the only way you can get to 18 months is
>install *on* the day it is released and skip the next two releases,
>then install the third on its day of release!

>see: http://en.opensuse.org/SUSE_Linux_Lifetime

>meaning, if you are just a little bit smart and let those first few
>months (after release) of Patch Blizzard subside, you can easily wind
>up with closer to a one year between forced upgrades..

>[well, you are not actually *forced* to upgrade, you can always run
>with unsupported software (as i am today) or you can jump ship..]

Don't take the date so literally. What I'm saying is that
one can skip a release.

My personal method is to install new releases after about four
or five months. That gives enough time to work most of the
ugly bugs out.

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Darklight · External Since: Sep 19, 2004 Posts: 71

houghi wrote:

> rafter22 wrote:
>> houghi wrote:
>>> Karl-Göran wrote:
>>>> Thanks for Your answers, I guess it's time to update.
>>>
>>> Wait two weeks: http://en.opensuse.org/OpenSUSE_11.2
>>>
>>> houghi
>>
>> The end of life for 11.1 is 12/31/2010, and since I recently fixed my
>> setup from KDE to Gnome, and I'm happy with the way it works, I think
>> I'll stay with it even though I'm testing the Fedora and openSUSE live
>> cd's.
>
> Sure you should.
>
>> But I'd update if I was still running 10.3.
>
> That was what Karl-Göran was running.
>
> houghi

i am still using 10.3 and there is nothing wrong with it.I updated it
regularly with smart package manager. Not using Yast. Smart done a better
job. Dame shame it ain't used any more. I hope i am wrong on that one. but
i have found xx.3 release to better than the other releases.

EOS · External Since: Aug 22, 2006 Posts: 119

Darklight wrote:

> i am still using 10.3 and there is nothing wrong with it.I updated it
> regularly with smart package manager. Not using Yast. Smart done a better
> job. Dame shame it ain't used any more. I hope i am wrong on that one. but
> i have found xx.3 release to better than the other releases.

http://software.opensuse.org/search?p=1&baseproject=ALL&q=smart
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houghi · External Since: Apr 25, 2004 Posts: 3249

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Darklight wrote:
> job. Dame shame it ain't used any more. I hope i am wrong on that one. but
> i have found xx.3 release to better than the other releases.

The realease numbers are pure marketing numbers. There is no relation,
other then coincidence, of technical releases. he difference between a
xx.1 and xx.2 could be bigger then between xx.3 an xx+1.0

In general the naming depends on SLE. SLE is released every 2 years. So
you have SLE 10, SLE 11, SLE 12, ...
The openSUSE version before it is called 11.0 _in general_. Sometimes
not. You could argue that the SLE versions are big differences and
therefore the xx.0 releases MUST be different. However this is not the
case.

houghi
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