-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday, 2010-11-07 at 11:09 -0600, Rajko M. wrote:
On Sunday 07 November 2010 06:00:37 Carlos E. R. wrote:
Although, the drop of maintenance time to only 18 months has sent quite a few looking for something else that offers at least 24 months.
Professional is fine word waking up memories of something that was good in every piece it was installed.
And just remark on "short" maintenance term of 18 months. For people that offer services based on openSUSE to SOHO market, it should be no problem if they support only desktops. Having end users to learn few bits ever 1.5 years should not be a problem, it can be seen as your active role to keep customer up to the modern times demands.
Even a short cycle in desktops is a problem, because it means frequent upgrades on many machines, lot of works. Complicated with the fact that often we have to skip installing a version because it does not work right in one machine or other, and we have to wait 10 months more.
With servers is another story, but if you support services that need stability then use SLES, otherwise pull sleeves up and learn how to adapt configuration to new release, or find other in the same position and take over maintenance beyond 1.5 years.
Provided you can afford it, which is not always the case for small busines, specially those where one person is fighting to install linux against the "common sense" of installing windows. Installing oS is just his time, installing SLES means reall support from the stablishment. - -- Cheers, Carlos E. R. (from 11.2 x86_64 "Emerald" at Telcontar) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.12 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAkzYKkIACgkQtTMYHG2NR9UGbQCeLV91xhvs/viz15oxh0pJyXPk ph0An2Pzf+TerdHbiN56wjkb+xzjJnpL =oIBh -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-project+help@opensuse.org