Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (3964 mails)

[Örn Hansen <orn.hansen@xxxxxxxxxx>]

tisdag 16 november 2004 02:12 skrev Alex Daniloff:
> On Mon, Nov 15, 2004 at 04:58:19PM -0700, Richard Mixon (qwest) wrote:
>
> Richard,
> Thanks for your reply.
> Why should we spend additional $349 for SLES 9 if SuSE 9.2 shall
> install and work on 64-bit platform as it advertised?
> Doesn't it sound kind of MicroSoftish - paying more money
> for virtually the same functionality?
> For God sake Linux is Linux no matter who distributes it.
> We don't need any commercial phone support nether other Novell
> marketing pitches.
> Why SuSE 9.1 (before it was sold to Novell) 64-bit version installed on
> the same machine without a hitch?
> If it's going to be a new Novell marketing trend to charge separately for
> the each hardware platform then we'll have to kick SuSE from our eng. dept.
> for good and switch to other less greedy Linux vendor.
>

  Installed 9.2 on my AMD64 with a brand new Barracuda SATA drive.  Went 
smooth, except for the final installation of the boot manager, that required 
a bit of manual hacking.