Am Montag, 12. Januar 2004 13:05 schrieb Pete Bradbury:
I looked at SuSE and balked at the price, but hey it might be worth it.
My SuSE 9.0 AMD64 cost me €63,48 (incl. taxes and shipping). It's an update version (German) found in the SuSE online-shop: http:// www.edv-buchversand.de/edv-buch/suse/catalog.nsf/vaw3productsbykey/SUS112 IMO that's a good deal for 90 days installation support, two handbooks, ....
Doubtless in a month or two this support will arrive. I know that this is no consolation, but we do have a great bit of kit, and a potentially great OS.
Linux always had problems regarding driver support - and probably will always have. Companies would have to put too much resources into supporting / certifying [closed source] Linux based drivers so that it's probably better for them to completely ignore (Desktop) Linux. GNU/Linux is a jungle and not ready for John Doe. Perhaps UserLinux (http:// userlinux.com/white_paper.html) combined with Java/Mono will change that somewhen in future - who knows.. Willi