Hi

this may be a stupid question but...

Is there any reason to upgrade from 9.1 Personal (bought cd version £30)?

I've had it installed for 6 months now and it's been great (Ath XP1300, 364kram, x30g x 80g disks, dual boot).

The thing is that I read in alot of the magazines that there are new Kernels and KDEs to be had, and I reckon I'm missing out.

But, I've downloaded loads of stuff on to my 9.1 version (Netbeans, JDeveloper, Firefox, games,compilers and loads of dependencies) and it's running really well with my adsl router, that I don't want to mess it up.

How easy is it to upgrade KDE and/or the Kernel? Whats the best advice for this?

K (I have average UNIX skills, so not a complete newbie)

Kernel - easy. I did it this weekend on SuSE 9.1 with a combination of this page and this one, but mostly the 2nd one.

KDE - probably not very hard. I use apt4rpm for upgrades and such, and it's a good bet that even if Yast couldn't get the latest KDE, apt would be able to.

cheers RB

I'll stick with Yast and see what luck I have

I tried installing apt but got into the old dependency hell, so stopped and figured i should learn to use what I have (ie Yast) before looking at other stuff.

Anyhow, running the online update now to get bang up to date then I have a stab at the next Kernel patch.

K

Concerning the KDE update: have a look in the sticky thread about YaST updates sources. You may find there what you are looking for.