David Nelsen wrote:
At 6/24/1998, you wrote:
If you get the commercial version,... it features a very good handbook and 60 days of..support.
NOT true, in my (limited, newbie) experience.
Howard Arons --
Perhaps vendors of commercial distributions should contemplate the extent to which they are in competition with their own code in the GSL. IMHO, if a commercial Linux vendor offered an excellent manual and solid tech support, they could capture a very large market share. My perception is that experienced UNIX / Linux users are fine with Slackware and net downloads as required. They don't need hand-holding or no steenkin manual. But we might guess that the larger potential market is the great unwashed masses of Windows users who wish to migrate to a higher level of computing. We come into Linux dumb as the proverbial post looking for that value added support the we suppose would be part and parcel with a commercial distribution. When it's not evident (by reading the news groups) we go GSL. In the long run however, learning it the hard way may be the best teacher. This concludes the philosophical portion of today's programing.
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The SuSE commercial distribution is well worth all $35 that Linux Central ( <A HREF="http://www.linuxcentral.com"><A HREF="http://www.linuxcentral.com</A">http://www.linuxcentral.com )charges for it. You get a 400+ page book, 4 CD's full of software, a boot disk and 60 days of tech support that I've _never_ had to use- their book and the HOWTO's have been all I need. I don't know what Howard's experience has been, but this is far and away the best Linux distribution I've ever bought. It blows the doors off of Red Hat for completeness and lack of bugs. Ken -- Ken Schuller Network Systems Specialist NovaNET Learning, Inc. <hint> Take out the spam foil to reply via e-mail. </hint> Incidentally, I speak for me. That's all. No one else. Linux- the best things in life are free! (Or at least GPL'ed...) - To get out of this list, please send email to majordomo@suse.com with this text in its body: unsubscribe suse-linux-e