On Thursday 13 March 2003 05:53 am, Anders Johansson wrote:
On Thursday 13 March 2003 12:54, Marshall Heartley wrote:
This is a VERY POOR judgement call on your part SuSE!!! I like a few others on this list do not own a DVD drive but now you insist on putting the sources on a DVD??? What good is that going to do me??? Especially if I need to recompile something. I guess it is to cut down on cost but without the sources, you are no better than MS and like I stated before, others like me do not have broadband to download the sources. So what do users without a DVD and broadband do? I guess you are telling us like MS that we need to change our hardware!!!! What next activation??
heh
You don't think you're - I don't know - overreacting, or something?
Without a cdrom you can't install it either, only old slackware distros are shipped on floppies. Evil conspiracy?
With a 486 you can't install it, since all packages are compiled for i586. Evil conspiracy?
Come join the 21st century. It's fun here
Name a company that sells computer 'systems' that *doesn't* put at *least* a cdrom in though. That's what he's saying. *Everyone and their grandma has a cdrom, but only a few have or can afford a dvd drive. I have a base of approximately 60 customers, just your everyday average Joe, and I can only recall seeing maybe 4 or 5 of those systems with a dvd in it. Hell man...*I* don't have a dvd in *my* system. You do understand *why* most don't have one, don't you? Most people watch dvd's on a tv system. Most apps, don't come on 'dvd's', and most people just can't afford one at the moment or see any need to 'have' one. So instead of bitching, how about telling us you'll buy each of us that does *not* own a dvd, a new one to put in our system, so that we can have access to *everything* we have access to now up 8.1. John