Re: [rox-users] Running Rox on SuSE 7.1 no go

[Albert W. <alw...@tc...>]

On Sun, 23 Feb 2003 16:19:10 +0100
Guido Schimmels <gui...@fr...> wrote:

<snip>
> There is no save way to upgrade core components on RHat,
> SuSE or Mandrake. The commercial distros are heavily
> customized and they don't offer such upgrades. They want you 
> to always buy the latest and greatest.
> If SuSE doesn't offer the required packages on their servers,
> which I would be very surprised if they did, you are wasting
> your time. If you want to stay on the cutting edge with the
> commercial distros, you have to make a clean install every
> 6 months or so. If you find this unacceptable, try a community
> supported distro. 
> 
I agree.  Although, not recommended for linux newbies, I use
LFS(LinuxFromScratch).

http://linuxfromscratch.org