10.2to 10.3 ? Good Idea?

Hi have a working system using suse 10.2 is it worth it going for 10.3?

Can I upgrade the system I have or do I have to start again?

Advice would be appreciated by novice.

Thanks

Marchant

If your 10.2 is doing everything you need it to do, there may not be a need to move to 10.3. If you need a new feature or just want to stay current, then you have a reason to move up.

When I moved from 10.2 to 10.3, I backed up a few important documents to a flash drive, and then did a clean install of 10.3. That way, I was starting fresh. At the time, I did not have very many files, so it was not an inconvenience to start over with an empty /home.

Now, I know numerous folks who have upgraded to 10.3, but have left their /home partition unformatted. That way, your settings and files are still there ready to be used again. That can be done during the installation when you use the Expert Partitioner.

Either way, if you decide to do it, should prove successful. Good luck!

If your 10.2 is doing everything you need it to do, there may not be a need to move to 10.3. If you need a new feature or just want to stay current, then you have a reason to move up.

When I moved from 10.2 to 10.3, I backed up a few important documents to a flash drive, and then did a clean install of 10.3. That way, I was starting fresh. At the time, I did not have very many files, so it was not an inconvenience to start over with an empty /home.

Now, I know numerous folks who have upgraded to 10.3, but have left their /home partition unformatted. That way, your settings and files are still there ready to be used again. That can be done during the installation when you use the Expert Partitioner.

Either way, if you decide to do it, should prove successful. Good luck!
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That's pretty much what I did. I found, at first that there was some instability and bugginess with 10.3, but that was cleaned up with the last release of nvidia's drivers.

The upside is faster boot times some improvements to yast, and a green theme.

well, the only thing stopping me from upgrading is the fact that 10.3 doesn't log in to my ldap or see my ldap users after I finish the install, which is strange to me b/c it sees the ldap server, I want to say it's an ldap server issue though with sles 10 sp1.

If you upgrade to 10.3, you'll find significant speed increase in software installs (Yast) and quicker boot speed among other things. I was cavorting with ubuntu because of 10.2's failings, but 10.3 is better than ubuntu.

Then again, maybe wait for opensuse 11.0 and get in on the ground floor.