Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (2407 mails)

[daubery@xxxxxxxxxx (Des Aubery)]

Hi Don,

Hear, hear ... extremely well put. My sentiments exactly...

Best regards,

Des Aubery...
(adTherm Technologies, East London, E.Cape, South Africa)

Don Hansford wrote:
> 
> 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.
> <include.rant>
> 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
> <End include.rant>
> 
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> Regards Don Hansford
> ECKYTECH COMPUTING
> SuSE Linux 6.4
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