Please allow me to express my feedback: 1. Mandrake uses the RH core, less development done, more on modification and improvement 2. Used to be LM user, but found it not as stable as SuSE, so I drop it for my office project 3. Although SuSE done good, pricing is abit high especially in country like Singapore Conclusion: 1. I will continue to use SuSE as long as the price is reasonable and 2. No other distro can match the stability and functionality with SuSE Or else: 1. Drop SuSE and go to other distro or 2. Joint this pricing discussion more actively Good luck to all. Dennis/sg
Linux-Mandrake OS 7.2 Powerpack Deluxe
$64.95
That's the one I refer to. Looks good. I'm too lazy to try it though...
Official SuSE Linux 7.0 Professional Edition
$62.95
Less software, and you save $2 here. At BestBuy SuSE is ten bucks more than Mandrake.
Make your own conclusions (personnally I think it is resonably priced, SuSE does not have a Publishing company to back them up financially either).
Granted.
Funny you should mention Whistler....What makes you think it will be $89 for the upgrade? Even if it is, I would not ever want it. I
Historically, that is what MS charges for the consumer versions of it's software. And based on the NT/2k kernel, it will most likely be very
stable.
Let me attest to the fact that while I prefer Linux for server usage - and I really think KDE is a better GUI than Win2k - Win2k is definately a fine piece of software, and runs and installs like a dream (especially for Windows!).
you're gonna have family licensing, small business licensing (and many others). If the upgrade (just an upgrade, one CD with no manuals, probably no support) is $89 that will be for just one license....
Granted... but they don't have millions of lines of code created for free given to them either (not that Microsoft needs it).
Why are you taking all the credit for making Linux popular? Who cares! The people who made Linux did it just for fun, they never actually set out to chamge the world. Really, what made Linux popular was not just the small business people, but programmers who spent countless hours doing free work...And others who just enjoyed hacking around the system. Yes
The hobbist did all the work yes. That's what I meant to include in SOHO/Small Business user (I should have added Hacker too). However, I might add that most of those who did all that fine work probably do not use SuSE or RedHat - I would imagine most of them use Debian (just a guess). However, that's not the point - I'm talking about SuSE. SuSE needs the consumers and small business users to survive.