[Discussion] [Linux] Starting the move to MAC

[Felmon Davis]

On Sat, 21 Mar 2009, Jon wrote:

> So if you don't keep on top of it with the latest & greatest you 
> will eventually find yourself where I am.  The best thing for me to 
> do is to go to openSuse 11.x and start all over.  That is not going 
> to happen here in the near future.

my experience is different since I don't bother doing updates unless 
there is some specific compelling reason. I suspect you approach it 
differently. 

I have some old versions of OpenSuSE running on a couple of machines 
(also 10.3?) and see no reason to bother with them except when I get a 
kind of 'itch', a need to mess.

I succumbed to that itch several months ago and ended up with Debian 
5.0 on this laptop. the update mechanism is smooth as silk and 
completely painless. I remember SuSE being a bit 'random' (and 
'dependency hell' is, as you say, a real trap there. also people 
advise against updating across major version numbers.)

nonetheless I still don't do much updating. guess I have become a 
creature of habit; a few tweaks and I have an environment that suits 
me.

I am confused by your firefox problem. when I went to the site, it 
downloaded a 'tarball' which when unpacked yielded a ready-to-use 
executable. maybe try this route instead of rpm's? also look into 
'kpackage' and 'apt-get'.  

F.

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