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[Aaron Kulkis <akulkis00@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Stefan Hundhammer wrote:
> On Tuesday 05 February 2008 18:03, Aaron Kulkis wrote:
> > > > Perhaps SUSE could team up with the people who publish those Linux Bible
> > > > books to include a CD.  They do publish a SUSE Bible.
> > > It already comes with a DVD containing Suse.
> > Unfortunately, every SuSE Linux Bible or Redhat Linux Bible
> > I've ever seen on store shelves has a CD or DVD of a version
> > which is horridly out of date
>
> Right. That's the biggest problem with that approach. Books seem to have a 
> much longer shelf life than software. You can still easily get a Linux book 
> with a 9.1 CD / DVD these days. And even though that book's sections about 
> installation might be outdated, the rest might not, so you can't really blame 
> the book store or the publisher that much.

And if you wanted to show someone Linux...would you even
think of showing him 9.1 now, in 2008?

THAT's the big problem with the book-store method.

It would be MUCH better to shrink-wrap the book with the
CD/DVD packet OUTSIDE, in front of the front-cover of
the book, with the SuSE Version number plainly visable,
so that the primary product is the "current software,"
not the book.


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