John Bennett wrote:
On Feb 6, 2008 6:43 AM, Kevin Dupuy <kevindupuy@bellsouth.net> wrote:
On Tue, 2008-02-05 at 08:09 +0100, Andreas Jaeger wrote:
Kevin,
you're right that the box is smaller than before but the manuals you're asking for are available as PDFs on the media. We do not have the box anymore in most of the stores. This is indeed a lost marketing way but this is both a result of a changing environment where many more users prefer to download for free (I know there are others) instead of willing
Here in Australia, one of the most popular IT mags (Australian Personal Computer - APC) which is predominately Windows, but also does reasonable coverage of other OS's, often (nearly always) has at least one Linux distro, either as a live version or as an ISO, on their cover DVD. They also have at least one major article re Linux. They are fairly current as well, publishing versions fairly close to the actual release.
In the U.S., all of the "General computing" magazines are so heavily influenced by MS'es advertising dollars, that they editorially constrained from even mentioning MS'es competitors, other than to put them down (increasingly rare as MS'es competitors tend to get torpedoed one way or another...). The only way to get Linux in front of joe-average-user is to keep it on store shelves, or try to rely on the persuasion abilities of IT people. But remember...having a product ON THE SHELF gives the type of credibility that the typical MS user relies on. To them, box on the shelf = credible product, and "download" = crippleware products that want their credit card numbers. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org