I've purchased two different versions of SuSE Linux, SuSE 7.2
Professional and SuSE 7.3 Professional. In my experience,
SuSE support is not very useful.
When dealing with SuSE crashing when a PCI based parallel
port card was installed and getting errors from the kernel when
PCI based serial port cards were installed, SuSE support offered
no help. I learned more from the Redhat web site...
When attempting to install qmail instead of postfix, sendmail, etc,
their software configuration tool would continue to complain that
no supported email tool was installed each time it was run. SuSE
offered to fix the software configuration tool to accept the presence
of qmail if I paid them money to do so. Decided it was easier to
learn Postfix than to deal with SuSE...
The good thing about SuSE Linux is that it installs on most of my
hardware without problems. Their online update works quite well.
Corel Linux and standard Debian also have good online update tools.
Chris Shaker
cjshaker@shaker-net.com
----- Original Message -----
From: "Ben Rosenberg"
* dh (ob1@yifan.net) [020615 14:42]: ::On Saturday 15 June 2002 01:56 pm, Ben Rosenberg wrote: ::--------------snip-------------------- ::> Sorry I don't sympathize with this attitude of " This should just ::> work and if not someone should tell me how to make it work without me ::> having to do anything to help the process ". *shrug* :: ::I'm not sure you are really "sorry", but I do believe you are entitled ::to your beliefs. (Just don't expect any post-install support for them ::;-)
Thanks :)
I actually never called SuSE support. I researched if my modem was supported at the time and how to do the ppp setup and pretty much joined the SuSE list about 2 weeks after buying my first copy of SuSE. There were more then enough people here to answer my stupid questions. ;)
::Please note the smilie, I don't intend a flame war, I respect your ::opinions even if I disagree.
I know. You are one of the respectful ones who didn't directly email me whining about how I feel about the lazy attitude of most computer users that they should have everything handed to them. Most people think computers are appliances or this is Star Trek and they are Scotty.." Computer?..computer? hmmmph..a keyboard how quaint."
*laugh*
-=Ben
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