I believe "heh" is common vernacular to illustrate a brief, derisive chuckle I musunderstood the context of which it was intended. I apologize.
Without a cdrom you can't install it either, only old slackware distros are shipped on floppies. Evil conspiracy?
No evil conspiracy. Look at the situation. People on this list reported issues with DVD's. Some with success some have horror sotries. All that I was stating was why do I need to change hardware to get everything that I need????
I think you're sort of missing the point here. Noone is forcing you to buy it. You can get all the sources (yes, *all* the sources) completely gratis either from the internet by downloading yourself, or by getting a friend to download it and give it to you.
True that no one is twisting my arm to purchase it. But on your point of having a freind download it for me, Why? When you buy the distro you should have the sources there that you can use. I guess that a DVD drive is still accessable but as I do not have a DVD drive, they become inaccessable.
Now you tell me, why should I have to suffer with old technology simply because you and a handful of others won't get a dvd drive?
How said that you have to suffer? I did not state that. But the ones of us who do not have a DVD drive it seems have been made to suffer by this.
You have chosen to remain with older technology, that's fair enough, that's your choice.
Fair enough
I still think that it is a lack of judgement.
With a 486 you can't install it, since all packages are compiled for i586. Evil conspiracy?
I'm aware of that! I only have a 486 laptop here. I know that they changed the way SuSE was compiled for performance reasons. If I needed to install something on a 486, I still own copies of Linux that will install on a 486.
And you still have copies of linux that has everything on cdrom. Any significant upgrades maybe gotten from the internet at your leisure.
Yeah with several hours worth of downloads.
Come join the 21st century. It's fun here
You must not be. If you are talking about my hardware, I right now don't have the funds and even so,
If you don't have the funds to get a dvd drive then you don't have the funds to upgrade to every version of suse that gets published.
And guess what: *you don't have to*
Fair enough. I usually try for the upgrade. I usually can get that and it usually is cheaper than a DVD. Now from what I hear from you is that not only will I (if I decide to purchase) have to get the distro but I have to get hardware too?
I want the code for the DVD's to mature. I do not want to buy a DVD and then find out that it will not work! Now if you are taking a pop-shot at my ideals,
I don't know what a pop-shot is, and if your ideals consist of having linux distros cater to the lowest common denominator, then get one that does just that. Any changes SuSE has made are/will be freely available. How very MS, right?
You sort of missed the point here. My arguement was that in order to do everything that I was able to in Linux (recompiling programs) cannot be done by us who either cannot get a DVD because of funds or don't want to. Especially when you pay extra for not only the tools but the sources as well.
then all I have to say is that that is VERY immature!
Hm, let me see. You say that SuSE are like MS just because they won't serve everything to you on 8-track magnetic tape for your PDP-11 and *I'm* immature?
Well call it like you see it. I had to change hardware in a machine in the house for XP and from your standpoint, I have to change hardware again for SuSE.
Why don't you look at others point of views BEFORE shooting off your ideas! Obviously, you don't. That is sad. According to the way you think, I guess now SuSE being like MS is OK.
And you were how old again?
Old enough to see others point of view which you obviously will not see but that is your choice.
"Nothing is impossible,
Except, apparently, getting a dvd drive
Here is a example of a pop-shot FYI -- Marshall "Nothing is impossible, We just do not have all the anwsers to make the impossible, possible."