Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (2271 mails)

[Bob Pearson <gottadoit@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thursday 01 April 2004 10:47 am, John Pettigrew wrote:
> It's swings and roundabouts, and no doubt the decision is
> made on commercial grounds (SUSE would rather you bought the CDs  :-)

My apologies if this should be moved to the OT group.

SuSE is in the business of making money as you say. I have bought the last 
four Pro Editions for my only home computer. I believe they provide enough 
value added and are reasonably good at security patches that they deserve my 
dollars and I support what they are doing so I do so with my wallet.

If I was being really good, I would buy the upgrade from SuSE as I assume they 
get more of the $$s for that than me buying the distribution from Amazon.

My only criticism of SuSE is I think their non-installation support sucks but 
they don't get to charge for it so i understand. It is on par with all other 
vendors and not worse. I ** STILL ** think it is VERY broken that SLP 9.0 has 
core dumps disabled and SuSE hasn't addressed this issue in SLP 9.0. If 9.1 
is broken this way, I won't upgrade until 9.2 or I'll do an ftp upgrade.

SuSE like Redhat, is probably most profitable in Enterprise versions than with 
the home user such as myself though they look at that as an avenue to 
Enterprise sales. They are right. I would recommend SuSE for any *IX 
deployment.

Novell buying SuSE has been a very good thing all and all.

Anyway, I think SuSE is right to not provide ISO images.

Just my $0.02 or maybe $0.04.

Best Regards.
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_/_/_/  Bob Pearson                    gottadoit@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
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