Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (2974 mails)

[Samy Elashmawy <samelash@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Not on a telephone modem <grin>

At 01:13 PM 2/8/2001 -0600, Michael wrote:
>You can download ~ 650Mb CD in an hour. Six CD's is about a 6 hour
>download if you take everything instead of just what you need. It takes
>far longer than that to have it mailed to you and almost as long to find
>time to go to the store and locate what I want ( Though it's getting
>easier to find Linux! ). Of course the University here keeps copies of all
>the popular current distros so it's a pretty fast connection if you're
>anywhere near (on campus is very fast..). Check w/ your local LUG to see
>if they keep copies too. :)
>
>*^*^*^*
>Have the courage to take your own thoughts seriously, for they will shape
>you. -- Albert Einstein
>
>On Thu, 8 Feb 2001, Matthew wrote:
>
>> 7.1 will have all the crypto stuff on the CD's even for the US.
>> 
>> I have a DSL line, but still will get the CD's, as its a whole lot faster
>> for me to upgrade via and install off of them than hunting down packages.
>> But I can see why people will use the download and retrieve method.
>> 
>> Matt
>> 
>> On Thu, 8 Feb 2001, Samy Elashmawy wrote:
>> 
>> > At 02:35 PM 2/7/2001 -0800, Christopher D. Reimer wrote:
>> > >Apparently, this is still up in the air.  Did SuSE really lay people off
>> > >in the U.S. office? (Would not surprised me that much since the current
>> > >market probably sink their opportunity to do a IPO now or on more
>> > >favorable terms.)  Or, did a single fired employee start rumors to get
>> > >back at SuSE?
>> > >
>> > >Either way, business is business, and I hope we don't see a removal
of the
>> > >SuSE distribution from the U.S. market
>> >
>> > You can allways order the international version , has all the krypto
stuff
>> > as well.
>> >
>> >
>> > >
>> > >Christopher
>> > >
>> > >On Wed, 7 Feb 2001, Matthew wrote:
>> > >
>> > >> It is very disturbing :-(. Hopefully they will release a reason
"why" thye
>> > >> are laying off most of the staff.
>> > >>
>> > >> Good luck to all the staff!
>> > >>
>> > >> Hopefully you will all stay in the Linux field and hopefully things
will
>> > >> get to turn round sometime in the future.
>> > >>
>> > >> I really hoped nothing like this would happen to an non-IPO
company, or
>> > >> the slumps owuld not affect them as much as IPO ones...
>> > >>
>> > >> Matt
>> > >>
>> > >> On Wed, 7 Feb 2001, Corvin Russell wrote:
>> > >>
>> > >> > It's a little disturbing that the SuSE PR person could come out and
>> > >> > just tell a blatant untruth.  Well, I believe the part about
expanding
>> > >> > marketing and sales, it fits with the blatant untruth part.  Sign of
>> > >> > things to come?
>> > >> >
>> > >> > Corvin
>> > >> >
>> > >> >
>> > >> >
>> > >> >
>> > >> >
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>> > >> > --
>> > >> > Corvin Russell <corvinr@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> > >> >
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