So the delivery guy dropped off the SuSE 9.3 shipment an hour ago, and now the first machine has been upgraded from SuSE 9.2 to SuSE 9.3. How smooth did the upgrade go? Well, apart from 30 or so packages that needed manual attention, everything went very well. I can’t really describe any troubles, because I didn’t have any!
It’s beginning to show that SuSE is a mainstream (Linux) distribution with some serious money behind it. Small steps towards an integrated desktop environment that works without the need for hands-on by a computer professional. Oh my god, soon we’ll have “George the accountant” running Linux! 🙂
I managed to find myself an icon theme that looks good (for now, until I grow tired of it); called Dropline Etiquette, and a set of window decorations for MetaCity; called Sloth. You’ll find a link to the icon theme here, and to the Sloth window decorations for MetaCity here.
Keep on rockin’ Novell and all the people at SuSE!
(and on friday the 13th of January 2006, I installed SuSE Linux 10.0)
With too much to do, the (for me) long awaited upgrade to SuSE 10.0 on my primary workstation at the office have had to wait until this week. I’ve now finally managed to get my fingers out and upgrade from 9.3 to 10.0. The actual upgrade procedure went ve