On Monday 03 April 2006 5:29 am, Chaitanya Chalasani wrote:
On Sunday 02 April 2006 09:32, Greg Wallace wrote:
When 10.0 came out, there was much discussion about the fact that you no longer got the Admin manual, just a, more or less, SuSE Linux for Dummies User Guide (okay, maybe it's a little better than that (or not as good?)). Many people were saying they should have just downloaded the software and not bought the retail version, since many of them were buying the retail version, at least in part, because of the nice handy Admin manual that came with it (though the matter was then raised as to how someone should be paying something to Novell to support the efforts being made by to improve the product). I guess this whole issue will be front and center again with the upcoming release. Buy the boxed set, or download, that is the question. Then again, I don't recall whether the downloads were actually a "legitimate" way of obtaining the product or not, though it would seem that Novell would not be in the business of giving away something they were simultaneously selling(?).
Greg Wallace
I Have been buying the suse box through online order from suse and novel since 9.0 and I will definitly go for the box for 10.1 as well. I never ever used the user and admin manuals so doesn't matter for me if the ship the manual along with the software or not.
Anders, guess this is where you slip messages into the "suggestion box" Perhaps they can offer it as a two boxed sets w/ and w/o manuals ?? That ought to be simple enough for folks to figure out which box they wanted. I kinda had the feelings that they dropped the "naming convention " because folks were confused by Pro appellation. I know there were always complaints about the name "home" version , even if I didn't understand the why of the complaints. -- j want to wander the bleeding edge? Get MS Windows and see how long it takes to have your banking info to be compromised .