Upgrading OpenSUSE
Thursday night I upgraded calcifer, the little webserver, mailserver and more that's also bringing you my blog to OpenSUSE 10.2. For development I'm using Kubuntu, but for a server I have a hard time doing without Yast. And, having used SuSE since version 5.something, almost all my system administration skills are, in fact, SuSE skills.
That said, upgrading a SuSE system to a new version has never been smooth. This upgrade was among the smoother -- it just took a very long time, so I was disconnected from the wide world for an hour or two. But in the end, only a few relatively unimportant things broke:
- I had two soundcards on this system (it's also my upstairs desktop), now I have none.
- My laserprinter disappeared from cups, and when I added it, it mysteriously lost its ability to print landscape.
- Somehow the GD module which is used by Authen::Captcha, which makes my blog a slightly less popular fairground with comment spammers, disappeared, so my blog disappeared, too.
On the other hand, the webserver, mailserver, mailman installation and cvs are still working, and I'm looking into installing planet software for Thomas to play with -- he wants a planet that aggregates all blogs that have to do with OpenDocument and free office software.
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