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SuSE upgrade

Sep 9, 2005 12:02AM PDT

Does any one know if 9.3 can simply be upgraded to 10 or will it require a completely new fresh install ? And will it automatically seek out and install hardware components better than 9.3 ?

Thanks all

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I can't say for sure but,
Sep 9, 2005 12:36AM PDT

in all past distrobutions of SUSE I have used there was an option to upgrade, and I can only imagine hardware detection would be improved, (I didn't have a problem with 9.3 in this regard) so I'm guessing hardware detection would be at least as good. If my understanding of the Open SUSE project (is this what you are speaking of?) is correct it is a bleeding edge distro. I don't think this means it will be unstable though as I have used Fedora (a Redhat based bleeding edge distro) without a probelm (core 1 to core 4). I am going to wait for the final release of Open SUSE 10 though before I upgrade, and do a fresh install. Hope that is of some help - Gary

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Tried Fedora core 4
Sep 9, 2005 8:39PM PDT

I did give Fedora a go but it hated my ati radeon pro 9800 and totally refused to recognize my SB Live 5.1.
I have a copy of SuSE 9.3 Pro but haven't yet installed it because the day I got Novell announced the Oct 6 release of 10. Thank you for your input,
T