Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (3785 mails)

[Bruce Marshall <bmarsh@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wednesday 01 October 2003 8:14 am, Rajesh Ganesan wrote:
> Hi,
> Suse9 seems to have only 5 cds. What does this mean - softwares have
> been reduced or source cds are not included in boxed versions? It was
> 7 earlier no? I have an opinion - Suse can make following choices:
> User can choose to purchase with or without source cds - I suppose
> only geeks set their hands on them and soho users rarely need them.
> Similarly, either dvd version or cd version can be bought.
> These options can reduce suse's cost of making boxed versions, right?
> Rajesh

Probably wrong...  the cost of producing CD's or DVD's is pretty small 
compared to the cost of boxing up two different distro's (CD & DVD) and 
having to supply them to the channel and keeping track of them, etc.


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