Comments on: Why upgrade to openSUSE 11 from openSUSE 10.x

By: Jake

Jake — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 20:02:05 +0000

I meant to say – the 60 Day Subscriber Warranty…I didn’t actually write Novell 60 times…that would be non-sense on my part and stupid on their part to answer so many non-sensical e-mails. Nevertheless – my warranty is gone and SLED/SLES that I purchased is now back on the shelf where it belongs – being kept safe from the world of hackers looking for insecure systems that have insecure methods of writing security into their file systems. I just never thought ext3 would ever become corrupted with immature code.

By: Jake

Jake — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 19:56:33 +0000

Well, I’m reloading opensuse 10.3 on my file server as I type this. After 4 weeks of testing on 3 other identical server boxes – SLES 11/SLED 11 and openSuSE 11.2 are not trustworthy in their binary securities. I’m not sure if it is a KDE4 issue or a Linux issue due largely to the fact that all my testing of GNOME came out positive in all ways — but, KDE4.x.x broke in several ways during SAMBA security writes on files with and without LVM setups. Although a black screen of death (akin to MS blue screen of death) didn’t happen and I could keep operating the OS and the machines – the security on the files kept breaking until finally they couldn’t be accessed either from the network or from the root on the machine itself – doing the serving. This may not seem to some as a big issue – but, everything in god’s world under the sun about computers is based on how well the OS’s write to memory space and logical spaces such as hard drives. If a file system can’t write properly – the OS is pretty much a wash until its reliability can be proven…in this case — Novell isn’t trying or they would have already answered my 60 requests to them instead of writing me an e-mail telling me I have only 2 days left on my warranty for help and updates…so much for SLES/SLED…I have proven Ubuntu Server — so when my openSuSE 10.3 breaks again – I’ll most likely got to Ubuntu Server.

By: Iosif Kanakaris

Iosif Kanakaris — Sat, 19 Jul 2008 23:30:40 +0000

Upgraded two dual boot PCs (one with opensuse 10.2 and win xp and one with opensuse 10.3 and windows vista)
Both PCs cannot boot into windows anymore, the one with the xp dies the horrible BSOD and vista gives a black screen with white letters stating that it cannot find a file in \windows\…
I suppose the same happens on the xp.
On both machines, I am able to access all files in the windows partitions when in Linux.

By: John

John — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 21:59:46 +0000

I run 10.2 on a tablet and it took weeks for me to locate and fix all the tablet related issues – pen support, screen rotation, etc.
Is it possible to upgrade, keeping all these settings or am I just going to be in for the fun of setting it all up again?

By: ben.kevan

ben.kevan — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 17:33:08 +0000

Hi Toby,

Just to put it in prespective.. I have upgraded this machine from openSUSE 10.2 to the current 11.0 release with no data loss.

I use a different hard drive to do my clean installations for mucking around and writing some tutorials )

By: Toby

Toby — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 13:28:19 +0000

Thanks for the tip. I was mainly wondering about the safety of the upgrade operation vs. the more long winded but safer approach of buying a new hard disk, doing a clean install and dual booting for a while, while moving all software and data over, then ultimately wiping the old install. I’ve used my PC for a few years, have installed much stuff on it, need it frequently and it would be really bad if the upgrade destroyed the installation.

By: ben.kevan

ben.kevan — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 03:02:40 +0000

Hi Toby,

I would add the openSUSE 11.0 repositories (OSS / NON-OSS) and run

sudo zypper dup

However you have the upgrade path with the dvd available to you.

By: Toby

Toby — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 09:42:47 +0000

One other very important question is – HOW best to upgrade from 10.x to 11? By ‘best’ I mean what is the safest route?

Previously there’s been much chatter about destroyed installations following upgrades, I have several PCs running 10.0 and would like to upgrade them all. Can I just boot from CD and select ‘Upgrade’ and relax?

By: ben.kevan

ben.kevan — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 13:17:21 +0000

vsu,

You can do:

sudo zypper ar http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/Emulators:/Wine/openSUSE_11.0/ Wine

sudo zypper up -t package -r Wine

This will update you to Wine 1.0 (which i hope gets updated via Updates).

By: vsu

vsu — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 12:05:19 +0000

Hey, man. Wine is still 0.9x version.
I just installed it last night.

By: Paganel75

Paganel75 — Sat, 21 Jun 2008 23:19:18 +0000

The most strange feature in Suse 10.3 was that I had the sound disappearing from time to time without any obvious reason. I hope things will be better in 11.0. My Samsung Syncmaster 940NW was still not recognized correctly, but I wrote the bypass to put in /etc/X11/xorg.conf in the hardware database. Thanks for that new version (I stuck to KDE 3.5, however, and shall wait for 4.1 or above to become mainstream).

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By: swyear

swyear — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 05:51:17 +0000

Great post!
Thanks!
I’ve translated this post to Chinese.
here: http://swyear.blogspot.com/2008/06/opensuse-10x-opensuse-11.html

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By: Ragavan

Ragavan — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 10:45:03 +0000

I always recomment SuSE linux to all my friends who have a PC. Nowadays I rarely logon to Windows.

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By: web design company

web design company — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 22:15:58 +0000

If nothing else its certainly much prettier looking to install!

By: ben.kevan

ben.kevan — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 13:11:44 +0000

Ambleston,

I was actually against upgrading my .3 version of a .0 version (everyone knows the quality difference between suse 9.3 and openSUSE 10.0), but when I actually tested it, it blew me away. There are still some minor things that need to get worked out, but nothing big enough to shy me away from the new version.