Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (2407 mails)

[donh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Don Hansford)]

Tim Hanson wrote:
> 
> Exactly.  The biggest advantage for me is bang for the buck, as well as
> the convenience of periodically getting latest and greatest without
> searching all over the web for it.  

I agree completely.
Three years ago, I had heard of this thing called "Linux". (Only real
geeks need apply!).
Two years ago, I started using FreeBSD, as an experiment, on a spare
system.
After much frustration (caused more by my lack of knowledge, than
anything else), I tried (at the suggestion of a friend), SuSE 6.2.
I subsequently bought 6.3, and 6.4, and am now eagerly awaiting 7.0.
In that time, I have also purchased around 20 SuSE packs for others.
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I have helped people set up RH, Mandrake and Debian. When this happens,
I can't wait to get back home to a distro that seems to revolve around
the needs of the end-user, not the needs of the Company.
I, for one, WILL purchase the next version of SuSE. I will also NOT
quibble about the price (as long as it stays reasonable) for a matched
set of apps and libraries, that someone (read SuSE) has taken the time
to test for me.
Since I use Linux for all my assignments at home (I'm a teacher) and the
Institute I work at uses MS, I don't need or want, the hassles of trying
to make a patched together system work. I could d/l everything I need
from the 'Net, but I would waste so much time getting matching
libraries, that I far prefer to buy an "out-of-the-box" solution. 
YMMV
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ECKYTECH COMPUTING
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