I read the same article, with much the same response, particularly as someone who has put (paid for myself) SuSE 8 on my laptop and desktop machine, and had my girlfriend praise it highly. Has anyone managed to make contact with the author and persuade him to try a boxed product? (Roger?)

Chris

-----Original Message-----
From: Damian Counsell
To: suse-linux-uk-schools
Sent: 5/9/02 7:47 PM
Subject: [suse-linux-uk-schools] Linux for Guardian readers

All teachers read *The Guardian* :-) so you shouldn't have much trouble
getting hold of a copy of today's edition from the staff room.  In the
"Online" tabloid supplement there is a full-page article about living
with Linux, entitled "May the source be with you".  For some bizarre
reason there *isn't* a Web version of the article, at the online
*Online* site (

     http://www.guardian.co.uk/online/0,3147,179200,00.html

).  I'd be happy for someone to correct me on this.  (However there is
a, ahem, an online version of another piece in today's *Online* about
keeping the human genome open:

     http://www.guardian.co.uk/online/story/0,3605,711981,00.html

 ---not that I'm obsessed or anything.)

After his experiment, the (UNIX-friendly) author of the Linux article
gives the usual "impressive, but not ready for primetime" verdict,
though he did choose to download Red Hat to his PC, burn his own ISOs
and then to do the install without a manual.  Crazy.  Everyone knows the

best way for the newbie is to buy a boxed copy of SuSE---and "Have a lot

of fun"...

[Do I get my free-as-in-beer copy of SuSE 8.0 now, Roger?]

--
Damian COUNSELL                                http://www.counsell.com/

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