Re: Red carpet channels

On Fri, 2004-12-10 at 14:38, Mark Gordon wrote:
> On Thu, 2004-12-09 at 19:41 -0500, Kelly J. Morris wrote:
> > On Thu, 2004-12-09 at 19:10, Brooks wrote:
> > > I've got it up and running on SuSE 9.2 just fine.  The SuSE channel
> > > doesn't seem to exist anymore, but the Red Carpet channel and evolution
> > > channels that I mentioned are up and running just find along with the
> > > "mono" channel.
> > > 
> > Actually, I should have been more precise: I run SuSE 9.0 Pro and there
> > haven't been any updates available for the channels that I subscribed to
> > (suse-90-i586, Red Carpet 2, Ximian Desktop 2, and Ximian Evolution) in
> > the last four months.
> 
> Available updates vary with distribution. Pretty much nobody is shipping
> updates for SuSE Linux 9.0 any more.  We used to get updates from SUSE,
> but 9.0 is sufficiently old that they're no longer issuing updates.
> 
> XD2 hasn't gotten an update in quite some time, and I don't expect it to
> get updates any time soon.  One factor is that the OS vendors are no
> longer supporting the distributions on which XD2 was supported.
> 
> Red Carpet 2 is getting updates on some platforms, but not yours.  2.4.4
> was released for SUSE Linux 9.1 a few weeks ago.
> 
> The Ximian Evolution channel is no longer receiving updates on any
> platform.  We pretty much consider it the responsibility of OS vendors
> to package new Evolution versions for their platforms.
> 
> -Mark Gordon

Mark - Thanks. This is extremely clear and helpful. May I prevail upon
you for some advice about my next upgrade? My m.o. is to upgrade my OS
every 12 months or so, and to do so by buying the boxed set with
DVD/CDs. My next upgrade, then, should be in January or February 2005.
As I said, my current set-up is SuSE 9.0 Pro, XD2, Evolution 1.4.6, RC
2.2.3, Ximian oOo 1.1.1. 

What should my next step be? Should I go for SuSE 9.2 Pro, or is 9.3
coming out soon? (SuSE 9.0 is "old?" Geeez, it only came out at New
Year's <sigh>). Sounds like a .x every 3-4 months. 

Is there any reason why I should do a complete new installation rather
than an upgrade? My system is pretty simple - I'm a home/SOHO user and
I'd rather avoid a scorched-earth approach, if possible.

Most importantly, will a SuSE Pro 9.2 (or 9.3) upgrade package contain
everything necessary to upgrade all of my system (not just Evolution),
or will I need to obtain upgrades separately for any of the above? 

When installing the SuSE upgrade and opting for Gnome, will it upgrade
XD2 or simply replace it with SuSE Gnome? (I struggled with the SuSE
version of gdm and XD2 for many weeks earlier this year ...). Sounds
like XD2 is dead.

TIA  Kelly Morris

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