| Making sense out of SUSE's delta releases |
May 01, 2006
Some readers who read last week's news story entitled "OpenSUSE 10.1 RC3 delta iso released," and then downloaded and tried to install the iso, may have become frustrated because the image did not work as expected. That's because a delta iso only provides changes relative to the base distribution, and does not include the complete distribution.
DesktopLinux.com columnist Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols explains: "A 'delta' to a program, in and of itself, is no good to man or beast. It's simply the code of the changes between one version of a program and another. To make use of a SUSE 10.1 delta, you first have to have a copy of the original code. You then apply the delta to that code to create the complete new version of the program, or in this case, the latest version of SUSE 10.1."
So, why are delta iso's a good idea? Read Vaughan-Nichols's complete explanation here.
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