Every time I read upgrade stories like this, I wonder what the actual advantage of Suse over Debian is supposed to be. What good is a distribution that looks nice and colorful during installation but can't be upgraded properly? And don't tell me this is an isolated case with Suse 9.1 - I've read similar horror stories about pretty much every Suse upgrade.
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