On Saturday 20 May 2006 18:58, Hans du Plooy wrote:
Well, the reason I purchased SUSE before (various SuSE/SUSE x.x Pro and SLES) was:
[snip] I'll second what you say, including the remark about Debian. It's nostaligia, I suppose, but the old SuSE really stood behind their product and that feeling can easily get lost in the world of commerce and big corporations. The "Just Works" thing with closed-source code, etc., is quite an issue, too, because if you move away from that then you are doing less to differentiate yourself from the 200++ other distros out there. Debian does have a lot of nice touches, too, such as scripts that will create and install ssl certificates for your mail server. For all that, I still find myself always going back to SuSE, ever since 7.3. Maybe not for a specialist server, but for daily desktop with a full KDE gui use it can't be beat imho. :) Fish