Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (2974 mails)

[Samy Elashmawy <samelash@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

At 12:10 PM 2/8/2001 -0500, jfweber@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
>**strings of ones and zeros  arranged themselves into a message from Samy
Elashmawy <samelash@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> on Thu, 08 Feb 2001 07:38:47 +0000
>which said...
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>**How meny boxes at $79.99 do you expect a typical non comercial user to buy
>**a year at M$ type pricing.

Last box I bought from M$ was a win98 upgrade for $89.99. That was the last
microsoft product I bought. Win 98 is the end of the road for me. All out
new machines hear at work get linux , and I am not paying the M$ tax as I
am puting them together myself. That way I know they will work with my
distro of choice - SUSE -

I have a P166 file server , a P133 POT intenet gateway/firewall , P50 linux
workstation , P166 dual boot workstation and an AMDK6 360 dual boot . The
two dual boot handle the limited M$ needs , mainly the payroll program.
every thing else is being moved to linux as they become avialable for
linux. Kylix will very likely allow me to move completly to linux expet fot
payroll wich can stay on a dual boot or with vmware wnr I get soem better
hardware.

What realy set me in motion for linux wwas two things.

1/ the 95 serive release 1 and 2 fiasco , where I ahd release one , and in
order to get FAT had to buy  service release 2 , inotherwords an 89.99
dollar upgrade. Sucks , for something that should have been put up on the
ftp server.

2/ Win 98 that was unstable , and would reboot with new settings and driver
for a whole bunch of stuff , forcing you to go in and delete them and
reinstall them. Not to mention that it craped out twice when I was out of
town.

3/ I slapped suse 5.3 on an old 486 to test samba on , Guess waht , It ran
faster than windows. Thaat belw me away , and REALY CINCHED the deal. Linux
has been rock solid for me. yes it takes time to set up , driver are in
short supply. But dam , it just plian works , not only that but it even
runs on my old hardware letting me recycle them. I just retired the 486 whi
it realy crapped out and ble the gasket.

I would not mind buying a full version for 79.99 and then a set of cds with
the documentaion on the cds. I would pay 29.99 for this with out hadr
manuals and tech suport. But Hitting me up for 79.99  a pop is a bit much.

>uh, have you bought a M$ box lately???? for an upgrade product ( which
bitches
>at you on each subsequent clean reinstall ( and you will need to do a lot of
>clean reinstalls , even w/ thier "best" version ever ( w2k) ) Suse's $80
boxed
>set includes actual useable distrobution of linux plus actual useable
verisons
>of a whole helluvalot of stuff I haven't even had time to play w/ yet.
Plus the
>manuals . there hasn't been a printed manual in M$ box for eons!  For all you
>guys who already know every thing in the universe that many not be
important...
>okay, but the $30 box, or dl and compitle your won, but stop bitching about a
>paltry difference in price for a big difference in "what's included" There
are
>several thousand people in the world just coming into the Linux world, no
point
>in makeing them think our favorite company is ripping them off, is there??
Adn
>besides, there are all thoe cute stickers for the kids.... or the big kid
within.
>Blondely,
>
>j
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