On Thursday 13 March 2003 09:44 am, Marshall Heartley wrote:
On Thu, 2003-03-13 at 08:37, Bryan Tyson wrote:
On Thursday 13 March 2003 07:15, Marshall Heartley wrote:
I guess now SuSE being like MS is OK.
That is a silly remark. How much source did you receive with your last Windows release?
As far as source is concerned, there was none. But my point is that I now have to do a MS thing by buying new hardware in order to do what I was able to do before. That is what I was comparing SuSE to.
-- Marshall
Marshall, I want to step in here for just a second please and interrupt this whole thread. Let me ask each of you complaining a question. When was the last time you used all 7 cds to install your SuSE? I barely used 5 when installing 8.0 and hardly 3 when installing 8.1, so what will we be missing on 2 cds we don't use? I can say, if SuSE decided to be rid of a few programs on the cds that just take up space and 9.5 people wouldn't use, then why not cut the number down to 5 cds? I suspect with the number of programs, etc SuSE presently supplies, something like 5300 I believe, some of those could be dropped and if we wanted them later, they are always available online. Whining about not having a dvd is pointless and serves no purpose as they are indeed cheap and very available now. If finances still don't allow the purchase, then you still have 5 cds full of wonderful Linux stuff. Wonder how many programs one can cram on a about 3.3gb these days? ;o) Point is, SuSE is moving forward with their Linux, they have too and should! If a few of us can't keep up all the time, then we have other choices, even with SuSE for our Linux. You almost sound like some of the old Amiga users that cried foul each time the rest of the world moved forward, but didn't continue to supply stuff for them too, as they fell further behind in updated programs. As Anders pointed out, things move forward, no way to stop that, a fact of life we live with now. What we have to decide to do is either try to catch up with it and live with it or cut ourselves off and stay with what suits us and our budgets, even though that requires us to use older stuff. Patrick -- --- KMail v1.5 --- SuSE Linux Pro v8.1 --- Registered Linux User #225206 On any other day, that might seem strange...