Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (3434 mails)

[Aaron Kulkis <akulkis00@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Andreas Jaeger wrote:
> Doug McGarrett <dmcgarrett@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
>
> > [...]
> > I disagree with your rant.  I would like to see the return of SuSE Pro,
> > and I don't mind paying $60 or so for it, but I do mind paying $200 or so for
> > SLES or SLED (I don't understand the difference) and I want the manuals.
>
> SUSE Pro is still available, it's called openSUSE now and available
> e.g. from shop.novell.com
>
> > You admit that SuSE Pro paid for itself, it came with the manuals, and you
> > could buy it at a decent bookstore.  And it came with some non-open-source
> > things that were useful.  What was wrong with that system?  Why must we 
>
> And today all of that is available from day 1 - unless previously - to
> download from the internet (ok, you cannot download printed books, just pdfs).
>
> > bow down to Microsoft?  It seems that they now own SuSE, and are determined
> > to make it less and less attractive.  If I didn't have a whole batch of stored
> > files on this stable, older SuSE distro, I would try something else in a 
> > minute.  And I may, anyway.
>
> There's no significant between SUSE Pro and e.g. openSUSE 10.3,

Except that SusePro generated revenue for "long term support"
of that product; in contrast, openSUSE is a loss-leader, and
generates ZERO revenue for Novell.


> Andreas



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