[Wolves] Installed Programs and SuSE 9.2 Pro

[Peter Cannon]

On Friday 11 March 2005 11:15, Kevanf1 wrote:

> I might be wrong, and feel free to say so if I am, but I think SuSE do
> have the latest programs on their website.  They are not on the YOU
> list though.  You need to navigate through the site and they are then
> available as either http or ftp downloads.  I think Peter gave me the
> URL for them but it's on my other PC.

Tom Mortimer-Jones gave excellent, explicit advice and guidance with regards 
packages that are available but outside the current release version, so just 
to repeat what he said.

People who use PROPRIETARY software;
This means stuff like;
Suse.
Mandrake.
Redhat.
Etc.

These types of distros are 'Pay for' releases they generally are a little bit 
behind with regards to the 'Free' Distros this is because most of the 'Pay 
for' company's want your money if they start putting stuff into their 
releases that is brand new and the package starts making you're Suse crash 
all over the place your not going to be very happy in effect what they are 
saying is....

"OK here is Suse 9.2 it comes with these packages it is a good STABLE product 
pay me some money"

While they do have the latest versions (ie Gimp) they are deliberately stored 
in a different directory what that is saying is....

"Look we know this is available, we're testing it, if you want it you can have 
it, but we reckon you aught to wait until Suse 9.3 if its in the 9.3 release 
then we think its OK if its not in the 9.3 release then we arn't happy with 
the package".

Using free Linux like Fedora is like living on the edge your system can crash 
and burn at any minute if like me you install every updated package.

So there are two major things to remember...

1. As Tom said don't get confused by the word 'Update' this means different 
things to different distros, under Suse it means appling a patch under Fedora 
it means installing an RPM.

2. Don't confuse Free with Proprietary, the free community will always be 
ahead as they are the test bed for everything the 'free users' understand 
that any RPM, dpkg, source file may have bugs and problems, as a paying 
customer you don't expect problems.

If you want to mess around with the latest stuff stick it on Ubantu or 
something free thats what they are there for.

Finally just because its 'new' that doesn't mean you have to have it.

Lecture over :-)

-- 
 
Regards,
Peter Cannon.
peter at cannon-linux.co.uk
Fedora Core 3 & Suse Pro 9.2

"There is every excuse for not knowing
there is no excuse for not asking"
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