On Tue, 2008-12-23 at 10:14 -0500, Joe 'Zonker' Brockmeier wrote:
I'm really sorry that we've missed the shipping date for purchasers of the openSUSE 11.1 box. Assuming there will be a box, we will try to ensure that the 11.2 retail box doesn't have the same issue. If we don't have a release date that falls between a few major holidays, I think that will help us be more successful.
Thanks, that's all I wanted. I'd just like to say again that a professionally boxed and produced DVD is, in my experience, a great comfort to people who want to try Linux but are skeptical because they've learned from the mass media that Linux comes from weird people with big bushy beards and sandals-with-sox who live in their mother's basement. This is especially true of small business people and academics. Distribution via download only is like preaching to the already converted. If it isn't profitable or convenient to have a boxed release simultaneous with the general release, then why not do a box mid cycle or even late in the cycle incorporating all the updates and even a dvd or two with some of the main repositories? I know several people out here in the vast emptiness where the phone lines tend to be nailed to the fence-posts who would gladly be six months out of phase if they could have a really solid, bug-free OS. Or, maybe just find some way to market SLED to these folks! -- N. B. Day N 39° 28' 25" W 119° 48' 37" 1404 meters up Aurelius up 5 days 19:06, 2 users, load average: 0.01, 0.01, 0.00 2.6.25.18-0.2-default x86_64 GNU/Linux openSUSE 11.0 (X86-64) -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-project+help@opensuse.org