On Sat, 2005-04-30 at 17:43 +1000, Colin Carter wrote:
Scott, I respect your response, and do not mean to be against you, but some of us applications programmers have an issue. Not blaming you... :-) I had a look at your referred site. You are right about the levels offered by SuSE; but there is no level offered for the likes of me: that is a stable, easy to set up O.S. which supplies a good platform for application developers who do not have the time to "mess around" with systems. Don't miss-understand me because I have been keenly involved in developing compilers et cetera.
So you are correct: there is no SuSE level for us. I'll just have to spend more time on the system side. Best regards, Colin
What a frustrating time to be a Linux user. All I want is what you want. A stable place to do web/application development. And that URL scares me to death (http://www.novell.com/coolsolutions/feature/14736.html). It certainly does make it look like SuSE is going the way of Fedora. Of course, just as I was thinking maybe Fedora was a way out, there's this (http://www.vmware.com/community/thread.jspa? forumID=19&threadID=13528&messageID=138701#138701). Kernel change that totally broke VMWare support. And it was distributed as an update to Fedora users. You just can't win if you're in the "willing to pay $160 a year for a good quality stable Linux distro that isn't encumbered by a subscription)" category. SuSE Pro is as close as it gets. Bummer about that link. I guess it's better than waking up one day, though, to find out VMWare is toast because they decided to throw a new kernel at you. A new browser I can deal with. But at least for kernels SuSE still backports fixes. For now.... Preston