Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (3166 mails)

[Frederik Vos <fvos@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Quoting John <yonaton@xxxxxxx>: 
 
> 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 
 
please stop this: everything pro and contra is said, and WAIT until we know 
for sure what's on the cd's, what on the dvd. 
 
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Frederik Vos 
VosBerg@SuSE & L4L 
http://www.vosberg.be