[mdlug] KDE 4

[Aaron Kulkis]

David Lane wrote:
> Does anybody know if the Upgrade part is better? When I upgraded from 10.3 --> 11.0 I lost what was there.
> 
> David C. Lane

I never do "upgrades"  -- I tried that once... too many headaches.

I keep /home, /opt, and /local on individual partitions,
copy /etc to /local/etc_version_number, and then do a
fresh install.  It takes a bit longer, but, I know when
I'm done that I'm not going to have any surprises.

Then I take the few local configuration changes that I've
made and compare the files in /local/etc_whatever to those
in the newly installed /etc, and merge the configuration

For me, that mostly involves copying in my /etc/hosts,
and some things involving ntp and a few other network
services.


> ________________________________
> From: Robert Adkins <radkins at impelind.com>
> To: MDLUG's Main discussion list <mdlug at mdlug.org>
> Sent: Tuesday, January 13, 2009 9:28:04 AM
> Subject: Re: [mdlug] KDE 4
> 
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: mdlug-bounces at mdlug.org 
>> [mailto:mdlug-bounces at mdlug.org] On Behalf Of Raymond McLaughlin
>> Sent: Monday, January 12, 2009 9:40 PM
>> To: MDLUG's Main discussion list
>> Subject: Re: [mdlug] KDE 4
>>
>> And how "far fetched" is this situation, this case of 
>> pointless bait and switch? I mean if the had just repackaged 
>> the exact same KDE3.5 that they shipped with 11.0. I can't 
>> imagine any body would have complained.
>> But no! Those arrogant dip sticks know better...
>>
>> I'm ranting again. Beware of OpenSuSE 11.1!
>>
> 
>     I was unaware of that.
> 
>     Thank you for the additional information.
> 
>     -Rob