On Sunday 12 October 2008 07:31:16 pm Richard wrote:
On Sat October 11 2008 9:27:17 am Jeanne Smith wrote:
Well I am a newby, I had no idea what the heck was going on. I think I have really screwed my system because of lack of communication and my ignorance. If the system depends on a server that is so vulnerable maybe I need another system.
Jeanne
What you say is true, some people *are* better off with a $100 dollar an upgrade, no choices OS that doesn't come with choices of desktop environments, browsers, word processing programs, spreadsheet programs, myriads of utilities and much more all at no cost and installed by default (or not, your choice) and at no cost to you. In return for that no cost software, there is some expectation of a basic attempt to communicate and to attempt to learn before complaining. For about 100 dollars US, you can get a no-brain OS with no software other than a browser and a desktop that has some 50,000 known viruses and worms available to excite your senses and provide revenue to all of the anti-virus vendors to protect your system. You won't need any of these for SuSE or other Linux distros to protect you from the handful of viruses that could affect a Linux system if you are stupid enough to cooperate and enable it. You won't want free Word or Excel compatability for your $100 OS because that will cost you several hundreds of dollars from the same company that sells the OS and it is probably going to be compatible, but no guarantees about being bug-free. If bugs are discovered, you can buy the upgrades when they come out.
Yes, for some people, SuSE *is* the wrong OS. Linux, any free distro of it is wrong. However, for many people, being able to download the SOURCE files to the OS and the utilities and most of the programs you use and modifiy and compile them to meet your own needs or desires is a major plus. Try that with the $100 OS vendor. Will they release the source code so you can change it if you don't like the way something works? No? Well, maybe there is something backwards there? I mean, for free, you can get the source, for $100, you can get the bugs. Hmmmm, I think I'll put up with the power failures.....
Richard
I spend good money on SLED in the enterprise. Along with SLED I support a pretty nice environment of RHEL (switching over to SLES), and you can imagine the price of that move. So obviously I (not I personally buy my company) spends good money on the Enterprise Distributions which are built by the use of the openSUSE products. I use openSUSE products not only because I prefer them over other distributions, BUT, because I get to see "what to expect" on the next version of the Enterprise product (which keeps me one step ahead of the game). I have turned others from Windows and Ubuntu to openSUSE to help widen their experience and know what to expect in SLED 11 (which will be the pilot part of me rolling out SLED in more locations then "training rooms"). So negative experiences like this, can and do reflect badly. Ben ps. I'm not going to follow this thread anymore.. as it's gotten un-necessarily hostile. :o) -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org