On Sunday 03 February 2008, peter wrote:
Johannes Nohl schrieb: |> If you want something which COSTS MONEY, then be |> prepared to pay for it, and quite *WHINING* that |> it's not being given to you IN ADDITION to a very |> convenient software distribution which has a value |> in many thousands of euros. | | Do you think I'm crying about missing presents? Do you think I beg | for it? No, I don't. I'm *WHINING* about the good time I had using | suse.
As I do. I've always bought SuSE Professional, since the 6.0 release if I recall correctly. I couldn't install it w/o help but I bought it anyway; all the way up till 9.3. Even in the old SuSE times it was not that hard to get a burned copy of SuSE, but I bought it anyway. It was fun to unpack the box and to smell the fresh printed handbook. It was something very valuable to me, but now it became fastfood.
Second that. I always had the boxed Pro versions. 9.3 is still today the best distro I've ever had. If only it was still supported, or I was knowledgeable enough to support it myself, I would be using it instead of this 10.3 that I'm now running. Quality-wise, going to 10.2 from 9.3 was a huge step backwards for me. 10.3 has been even buggier than 10.2, even with all the apparmor, beagle etc. crap removed. Everything about this feels a bit flimsy and unsteady. Heck, even something as simple as the updater applet works unreliably. When I set up the next system I will have to consider between the enterprise desktop version (I think they promise a decent life span for it) or looking at some other distro. I don't know yet. But the current openSUSE is not what SuSE was. Maybe SLED ain't either, but at least they provide security updates for it longer than 18 months or so, meaning, that suppose I get it set up right, I won't have to move to a yet another system the next year.
What *I* need is a Long Time Supported SuSE Professional with printed handbook and updates tested several times.
Couldn't agree more. Regards, Tero Pesonen -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org