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Re: [SLE] SuSE Inc. Lay offs?
- From: Rachel Greenham <rachel.greenham@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 09 Feb 2001 10:37:22 +0000
- Message-id: <3A83C862.2080105@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Robert Sweet wrote:
Why not buy the Personal Edition and when the FTP version is available set your installation medium to point to that? How's that for a compromise? I know, I tend to buy the Professional Edition out of habit, (and I expect I *will* buy the 7.1 Professional Edition because I swiped the last two releases when work got them instead of buying my own and I *do* like to show support - I'll also be getting a boxed 7.1 for my Dad, who's finally given up with Windows and the crappy Tiny computer he bought and asked me to make a system for him) but truth be told the main stuff I use that isn't in the Personal Edition doesn't come in the Professional Edition either, or at least not installed in a way that I like it (Tomcat 3.2.x, Java 1.3, KDE 2.1 betas, Moz latest milestones or nightlies, and I generally build my own kernels and Apache etc. anyway).
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Rachel
I too will prolly do the same and switch to Debian. I
switched to Suse when Redhat started moving their prices up. I have
been running linux for 6 years now and SuSE is by far the
best I have used. I bought 7.0 Professional, but I don't
think I will buy 7.1. It starts to hurt when you are spending
$60.00+ 2-3 times a year because you love Linux. I didn't
mind to support the Linux community at $30.00. But it's
getting too close to the $100.00 range. BTW, I don't use the
books, just a CD set would be nice, like I used to buy from
infomagic...
Why not buy the Personal Edition and when the FTP version is available set your installation medium to point to that? How's that for a compromise? I know, I tend to buy the Professional Edition out of habit, (and I expect I *will* buy the 7.1 Professional Edition because I swiped the last two releases when work got them instead of buying my own and I *do* like to show support - I'll also be getting a boxed 7.1 for my Dad, who's finally given up with Windows and the crappy Tiny computer he bought and asked me to make a system for him) but truth be told the main stuff I use that isn't in the Personal Edition doesn't come in the Professional Edition either, or at least not installed in a way that I like it (Tomcat 3.2.x, Java 1.3, KDE 2.1 betas, Moz latest milestones or nightlies, and I generally build my own kernels and Apache etc. anyway).
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Rachel
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