Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (3217 mails)

[Anders Johansson <andjoh@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tuesday 30 March 2004 06.17, Liam Marshall wrote:
> My question is, can anyone give me an objective reason to switch to
> SuSe?  It costs (not lots but some), whereas Fedora is still free.  What
> advantages will I get out of switching?

It was already explained to you in the other thread you started that suse can 
be installed gratis from ftp servers around the world.

>
> Eventually, I envision making the entire lab, including workstations,
> Linux, the only stumbling block there is I NEED to be able to continue
> teaching Java Programming as well as Visual Basic Programming.

No you don't. You NEED to think about your curriculum. You are doing your 
students a disservice by teaching specific languages as opposed to general 
programming. When the next fad comes along (.Net or whatever) they will be 
less able to handle it quickly than students with a more generalised 
training.

On the other hand, if your students have been taught the general basics under 
which all languages operate, they'll be able to get a grip on VB if they have 
to on their own very rapidly