On Saturday 20 May 2006 17:08, Hans du Plooy wrote:
On Sat, 2006-05-20 at 11:19 -0400, Bruce Marshall wrote:
2) madwifi has gone missing (that's pretty serious)
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So what do we get in the retail box that we don't get between the 5 OSS CDs and the extra non-OSS CDs?
I burned a significant part of my monthly bandwidth quota to download the OSS version, and I like it and have almost everything I need so far (still busy hacking on it). I was going to buy the retail box when it finally hit our shores, but now I don't know.
madwifi is one of only a handful of things I haven't gotten around to setting up yet, and one of the reasons I buy the box - so I don't have to mess with building kernel modules...
Hans
I've bought every retail box since 6.1 and I've still got them all. I was going to buy 10.1 but now I don't think I will. I already downloaded the non oss DVD and installed it, which gives me everything I need and works fine, albeit with a bit of getting used to the new package management. I thought wifi would be a problem but I managed to set up my ralink card on my second box using these instructions : https://linux.wordpress.com/2006/05/14/suse-101-and-rt2500-wi-fi (thanks to Bjorn Lie) in about 10 minutes, so I don't need the retail box for that. In addition the book you get really aren't much use, I've found the Wiley Bibles for 9 and 10 much better and will probably get one for 10.1 should they do one.. I bought all the previous versions because I wanted to help SuSE to continue in existence, but I can't see that as an issue now it's part of Novell. Having said all that, I still feel partly disloyal, and I might still buy it if they put the stickers and badges and things back in, and perhaps a t-shirt or two. Mike