[ale] Suse Professional Questions

[Geoffrey]

Greg wrote:
> Has anyone bought, used, and perhaps tested the Suse 9.1 Professional Update
> ?  I have always heard that with a *nix, it was better to re-install than
> update (unless it was Debian).

FYI, When you purchase the SuSE update, you get the same media as the 
full version.  You just don't get the same books.

That being said, I've done one update of SuSE 9.0 (not 9.1) and it was 
flawless.  I generally do not do updates for the reason you noted above 
and also, so I have somewhere to return to if things don't work out.

What I do is an install on free space on the same box.  I'll usually let 
/home remain /home. So, right now I have a dual boot on my primary box 
of SuSE 9.0 and SuSE 9.1.

I did the same with my laptop, only it's a dual boot of SuSE 9.0 and Red 
Hat Workstation.

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Until later, Geoffrey                     Registered Linux User #108567
Building secure systems in spite of Microsoft