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At 08:42 10/12/2001 +0100, Derek Fountain wrote:
I think we should all do our part by buying the boxed version. However, having bought the boxed 7.1 release a few weeks before the 7.2 came out, I just cannot justify buying 4-5 boxes every year. I would hope Suse (and others) would at least allow some number of free upgrades (complete ones) before you were encouraged to buy another box.
Remember there's two markets they're after: upgrading and new sales. You can't expect people to walk into a store and buy a box that's nearly a year old. To ensure people new to Linux get the best product they have to keep putting out an up to date product.
There seems to be a handful of people who *must* have the latest version, and that's fine. Only then some of them complain that they're upgrading too often, which is not fine. If you have upgrade-itus, and you don't like having the condition, at least recognise that it's *your* problem, not SuSE's!
I don't think it's "ugrade-itus,", it's that some of us would like a distro that runs without hiccups. We keep hoping against hope, that they have fixed the bugs and not introduced new ones. At least that's what _I_ hope! I would cheerfully pay twice the price for a distro that was absolutely fool-proof, even if it had one lower number on all the program files. I'm a little bit better than the average MS Windows user (I've been around since before CPM) but I'm not a programmer, even tho I've written a few in BASIC and Pascal, but I would really like to start doing useful work, not continuously futz with the OS. Particularly now that MS has come out with a particularly odious OS that will tie you to MS with a strong chain, at a very exorbitant cost. This is the time for Linux. Give us a system that just works! (If Linux worked right, I wouldn't be sending this from Win 98.) --doug .