On Friday 08 April 2005 18:33, Fred A. Miller wrote:
On Thu April 7 2005 7:09 pm, Stephen Boddy wrote:
On Wednesday 06 April 2005 20:46, John Andersen wrote:
Its SO cheap compared to windows (any flavor).
I'm going to be controversial here and disagree with you.
I probably should have said "I'm going to play devil's advocate here". Cut me in half and you'll find a green gecko in there. I've used, and mostly enjoyed, SuSE since the 5 or 6 series.
Time between Windows XP and Longhorn is going to be roughly 5 years at least. Price of an upgrade will be somewhere in the range of $125 dollars.
You don't know that - NO pricing has been published by MickySoft.
I took a price off the net for a WinXP Pro upgrade. I wouldn't expect M$ to bump this up too much. They struggled to convince a large percentage that XP was necessary. Saddling Longhorn with a significantly larger upgrade cost will really damage the take-up.
In that time SuSE will have released ten releases (6 month release cycle). At a cost of $60 for each upgrade you're looking at $600.
I appreciate the significant differences between a Windows release and a SuSE release, and I do like SuSE, but I do wonder about this continuous upgrade path. If anything I'd be happier with a yearly release on the grounds of actually having the OS installed for a reasonable amount of time.
Then, do as some do and only buy it once a year......simple enough.
I think I'm just getting jaded in my old age, (32 ;-) The last few releases have been a bit hit and miss in places, and I just haven't felt "compelled" to buy upgrades. That's not quite the right word, perhaps "excited enough" is better. The big selling point of SuSE (and most other distros) is the packaging of software, but this has it's downsides too. Sometimes I have to start messing around compiling and installing stuff that SuSE don't do, which defeats the purpose of having package management. I dabbled with gentoo for a week or two, but even with a fairly light system, all the constant compiling started to bore me. I think I need to go and contemplate my navel for a while and figure out what I want from my distro.
BTW I'm not a Yank, just using dollars coz it was simple math ;-)
It works.
Fred
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