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[Damon Register <damonregister@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Teruel de Campo MD wrote:
> Novel offers stable business version of linux and also contributes to
> bleeding edge free version (aka opensuse). What you get is your choice
I have known of their existence but have never had the opportunity to
work with any of the commercial products until yesterday.  I was replacing
an old PC in a lab at work.  The PC was running SuSE 9.0.  Our sysadmin
had a spare license for SLES 10 so he gave me that to put on the new
PC.  In one hour I was able to install, configure the net (including
masquerading) and get the printer working.  I told our sysadmin how
impressed I was and he said that's what you pay for in the commercial
version.

So, for work, it certainly is nice to have something that just works
and is easy.  For home, I can live with the inconveniences that come
with the bleeding edge.

> I do believe our function when we use an opensource product is to take
> advantage of a free product (and almost nothing is free in this world)
> and contribute in any form we can
You forgot number
6. complain when it doesn't work :-)

> Example 2: I miss this feature that was in the previous version. 
You mean like "I want YAST 1 again" ?

I just installed 11.0 on my son's computer so I have only seen 11.0
for a very short time.  So far the only two negative things for me
were the organizer that crashes on startup and Dolphin that reminds
me too much of the Mac file manager.  Neither of these were a problem
since an update fixed the organizer and Konq is still there.  So,
for me, I am satisfied with 11.0 and my 7 year old son sure is having
fun with the Planet Penguin game.

Damon Register
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