* Brooklyn Linux Solutions CEO [Mon, 23 Apr 2001 17:37:55 -0400 (EDT)]: I know I'm going to regret this, but I have to answer to that.
Maybe SuSe forgot that kernel upgrades are standard.
Compiling your own kernel has *never* been supported by our installation support. Just take a look at appendix H in your SuSE Linux manual. If we would support it, you'd have to pay *much* more for the box. And we do support it, just not for free. It's that simple.
BTW - with the attitude SuSe has taken towards it's refusal to fix problems in the distributions which become apearent THROUGH support,
O thank you! My colleagues in development and I will love to hear that we're doing nothing. The update trees on ftp.suse.com don't exist. I haven't worked hard lastly in order to fix security bugs in Midnight commander for SuSE Linux 6.0 - 7.1 and so on. This is insulting!
they can not ever be recommended for enterprise systems.
Well, that's your opinion. Quite a few very large companies (like Germanys by far largest ISP T-Online) have decided differently. And IBM must also be stupid to recommend SuSE Linux for machines ranging from Thinkpads up to zSeries mainframes. But all enterprise customers *know* that the level of support they want or need doesn't come for free and thus buy support contracts. Philipp -- Nothing would please me more than being able to hire ten programmers and deluge the hobby market with good software. -- Bill Gates, 1976