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- From: scsijon <scsijon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 25 Aug 2003 21:58:56 +1000
- Message-id: <5.2.1.1.0.20030825212610.024f47e0@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
At 10:05 PM 7/08/03 -0700, Ben Rosenberg wrote:
Actually as an overseas customer since v5.x I'd love to see it like this!
I'd be quite happy to pay for a "major" package to be released once a year and have a bi-monthly "update" CD/DVD package automatically shipped by SuSE to me containing, all updates up to within 2 weeks from 'update release date' and new programs and !things for the rest of the year. Yes I suspect the cost differential would add at least 50% and i'd actually be happy with this knowing the update will automatically come as well as at least part of it's cost going back into a great company (their shipping group may not be pleased with the idea though :-))). At least then i'd be able to keep things I use up to date without having to spend time downloading with a slow modem for a couple of hours or so every few days (neither cable nor ADSL is available in my local area in australia (1 general store, 1pub and 28 families) and satelite is too b...y expensive). The only downloads needed would then be the ?urgent ones for system protection, the rest could wait.
come in spinner
scsijon
* Herman Knief (herman@xxxxxxxxx) [030807 21:59]:
>>
>Hey... look where marketing has put Microsoft. Maybe the switch to
>Year/Quarter notation would work for Linux also...
>
>Anyone for SuSE Linux 2003.4?
Solaris does this. They are about to release an updated solaris 9 in
which Gnome2 is the default desktop by install. They do updates
quarterly such as 02/12. So why not have SuSE 9.0 be the release for the
year and just have updates via single CD. It could work..and next year
we'll see SuSE Linux OSX..err...never mind. ;)
Actually as an overseas customer since v5.x I'd love to see it like this!
I'd be quite happy to pay for a "major" package to be released once a year and have a bi-monthly "update" CD/DVD package automatically shipped by SuSE to me containing, all updates up to within 2 weeks from 'update release date' and new programs and !things for the rest of the year. Yes I suspect the cost differential would add at least 50% and i'd actually be happy with this knowing the update will automatically come as well as at least part of it's cost going back into a great company (their shipping group may not be pleased with the idea though :-))). At least then i'd be able to keep things I use up to date without having to spend time downloading with a slow modem for a couple of hours or so every few days (neither cable nor ADSL is available in my local area in australia (1 general store, 1pub and 28 families) and satelite is too b...y expensive). The only downloads needed would then be the ?urgent ones for system protection, the rest could wait.
come in spinner
scsijon
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