i agree suse rox.... i think its more than ready for the desktop..i been using it since 61 and i love it its my main operating system... other than a few minor programs not readily available it kicks ass!!!!!!!! they should fire that dude who said all that about suse... i also believe suse is more secure right outta the box than any other distro of linux, im proof of that cause when i was first using it, i was online for 8 1/2 weeks straight 24/7 without a firewall and never been hacked but had scans but no entries... the only reason i had to reboot was becuse of a power outage...and thats what hooked me on suse was the secureness of it cause i was new to linux and didnt know alot about linux security... i was also able to do everything i was used to doing in winders in suse!!!!!! plus more..... i think its more ready for the desktop than winders...i mean who wants to reformat their drive several times a week and reboot everytime they install a program....come on wake up and smell the coffee ya know... later..... On Sat, 04 Mar 2000 16:53:24 -0800, SJ Black wrote:
Hello, all -
OK, I've gone over the CNN article. About a 1/2 dozen times.
Dyroff's sanity needs be called into question.
Anyone - ANYONE - releasing a top-of-the-line product, and then claiming it's not able to compete in a given market is shooting themselves in the foot... to say nothing of their employees, who create - often painstakingly - that product.
As a businessperson, programmer, and consultant, i have to think twice about tossing support behind SuSE. Until now, i've been a staunch supporter. I like the product. It's the most comprehensive distro on the market. It'll do for damned near any purpose conceivable. But CEO's like Dyroff have a tendency to sabotage such good efforts. Who the hell is he working for - M$??? Or Caldera??
Articles like this are a slap in the face to people who are actively promoting SuSE Linux. I'm sure the companies who are investing huge sums of cash to support the Linux effort don't like it much either.
I dare Dyroff to tell IBM, Intel and a few other major league players that Linux isn't ready for the desktop market. He'll have a great many people to answer to if he does.
Right now, he's not much credit to the company that pays him.
Alpha
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