Hello,

How long does this typically take? Also is it a simple upgrade (insert cd and upgrade) or do the server have to be formatted and ver 10 be installed from scratch?


Thanks in advance.

9 is old...

If there is not a particular reason for you using openSUSE 10.0, you could switch to the new 11.2 which will be out in the beginning of November.

If you want to stay with KDE 3.5, it is still available on 11.1, but not on 11.2. If you want 10, I would recommend 10.3, the revision that solved the problems incurred when Novell bought SUSE.

In general. a distribution like openSUSE is better upgraded with a new installation rather then an update. There are both live-cds and installation DVDs, with the DVD giving you more controll, and the installation process in itself is quick. Updating from 9 to 11.x might not go well, even updating to 10.3 might be a problem.

The quickness and ease of installation is relative to your hardware and any difficulties it presents, but that would be the same with any any distribution you installed.

Here is 10.3. If you go up the tree in the parent directory, you will find listings of other openSUSE distributions.

http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/10.3/iso/dvd/

If it is a question of ppc, there is a 10.3 DVD for the older Macs.

The one thing that I would disagree with here is that OpenSuSE tends to be towards the longer end of the install time spectrum of the binary-type distros. Although, compared with something like Ubuntu, which installs relatively quickly but does not give you much granularity of control about what gets installed, you might still think that time spent here is still a bargain (compared with the necessity to do post-install clean-up and a stack of post-install additions).

If it's a server are you talking SLES?

In which case references to 11.x don't apply. And in which case you're not likely to be worried about which KDE you won't be using.

And if it's SLES on a production server either upgrade path needs to be treated with a bit more care than just throwing the latest distro on your home desktop. That said, yes it's possible to do SLES 9 > 10 upgrade but it worked best when 9 was at SP3.

IG