Jerry:
Then we both agree to disagree. That's what makes the world go around....
Sounds good to me.
You are making assumptions. There are basically two kinds of folks on this list: those with problems seeking solutions and those who donate their time offering solutions. The member ship of this list isn't mapped to the total number of SuSE users.
That is a good point.
Unlike M$drones, Penquins are generally not in the habit of using successive releases of a poor quality distro, and you will notice that many folks, like myself, have been with SuSE since the 5.x days.
Yeah, I've been using SuSE since 6.1, not as long as many of you.
So, now you have a business model. Execute it. See if your
Well, if I felt like running a Linux distro company I would (I don't). But, that doesn't mean I can't _suggest_ ideas. It's one thing to suggest ideas to an open source project, but certainly, I see no harm in discussing problems with a for-profit company.
theories match reality. Before you go off trying to convince others of the value of your distro, perhaps you should stop using M$ tools and start using Linux and GNU tools to do email and the rest. i.e., practice with what you intend to sell. You'll be more convincing.
1.) I intend to, current ETA: June or July. 2.) I can't right now. I'm (1) busy on _my_ open source project (to be unveiled soon at http://www.uninetsolutions.com/free.html - a site listed on GNU.org, btw ). 3.) The ETA is due to the fact that I am waiting for Magellan to come into beta or release phase later this year. I just can't stand to be without Outlook. 4.) I use Perl and Apache even in Windows, and my web site is run on 100% open source (i.e. Linux 2.4.0, Apache 1.3.x, Perl 5.006, etc.). 5.) All of my current software is open source (so I'm practicing what I'm preaching already, so to speak).
with RH for a while you might appreciate YaST, the excellent manuals,
I have used RH, I don't like it. Although, funny you should mention YaST here, at least RH's installer is open source.
So what? When you cut your M$ umbilical then you can start preaching the strict gospel of GPL...
1.) I have nothing against close source. I do have something against a company that specializes in open source releasing one of their major tools as quasi-open-source.
and the fine collection of software present on the 6 CDs, most of which have been tailored to be automatically installed (or uninstalled) in/on
That's what I like about SuSE. I'm not sure that I like it $70 worth, but I do like it say $40-$50 worth.
Then buy some distro that gives everything SuSE gives but does sells it for $40. Just stop bitching about SuSE.
I _like_ SuSE, I'm happy with it. But, if no one complained when they felt something needed to be changed, SuSE would loose touch with it's customer base.
Really? And how many businesses are you running right now, or
One.
have run in the past? Are you self-employed? Have you every
Yup. I'm happily self-employeed at my consulting/training/free software company - www.uninetsolutions.com .
developed a business plan or other exercises in Operational Analysis. Do you suggest that the SuSE folks are so stupid they
Yes, I have.
can't figure out the most economical way to make and distribute boxes of their product? Have you access to their productions and
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