Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (2009 mails)

[doomx@xxxxxxxx (Daniel Woodard)]

I bought 6.1, 6.2, 6.3 and 6.4.

At $20/$30 a pop it was no big deal and I didn't mind supporting the distro
that had been so good to my slow learning curve, but with the new pricing, I'm
gonna have to slow things down a bit and get more mileage out of the version I
have.

How long can a version, say 6.4, go before it's just dangerously out of date?

Assuming I keep the kernel moderately fresh, what are the major packages I need
to keep my eyes on?

I use it for mostly specific things. As long as it does those things well, do I
even need to concern myself with anything other than major security updates?

I need some things in Professional like netalk, but $70 several times a year is
pushing it for my small enterprise. Can I buy the personal edition, and just
get the "special" packages I need from the 7.0 ftp server?

Will SuSE update the 7.0 version as rapidly? Will there actually be a
7.1, 7.2, 7.3 and 7.4? Seems like buying 7.2 or 7.3 and riding that until 8.0
comes out could be a workable scheme.

I suppose it's not out of the question to have somebody copy the
Professional disks to CD-R for a drastically reduced price and just forgo the
manuals? Or is that black letter, but not the spirit? Under this guise SuSE
gets none of my money, that's not such a great solution either.

I'm not trying to be a cheapskate pain, or take side jabs at SuSE's new
pricing, but after a year or more of smooth sailing, I need to figure out
what to do in the future.


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