"Keith Gibbons"
writes: Hi all, I am afraid that SuSE's silence is deafening on this matter. I would have thought that jumping on the RH bandwagon, i.e. selling a "come and get me" distro on 1 CD for a few $ and charging a lot more for the multi CD "Professional Edition" would be a detrimental move. We have all seen what has happened to M$. I for one buy SuSE for the great selection of "free" packages. I think that this is one of the strong points of the distro. OK we can do without the manual if it was still on a CD in some readable
format as
the cover of the CD's is nearly enough to get you up and running. The printing costs of the manual alone must be quite high.
I concur -- while the quality of the manuals keep getting better and better, they are basically repeating things already said in the two foot tall and growing stack of installation manuals I already own -- with only very, very slight changes as the OS evolves. What people who have been using Linux for years need is an electronically searchable version of the changes -- not more dead trees to pile up on their bookshelves. SuSE needs a way to make their 6 CD version available as updates to people who cannot afford to buy the professional version 4 times a year, or else they will lose touch with the origins of Linux, and wither. (After all, Linus started Linux because he could not afford a commercial version of Unix.)
I disagree that the printed manual should be left out of future versions of SuSE Linux. I for one bought SuSE Linux because it was better documented than most of the other distro's. It might be better to leave the printed manual out of the upgrade version - since they already have the manual - and new users of SuSE can still get the printed manual in the full version. -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe@suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/support/faq