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Hi,
I'm new to the list but not new to Linux or SuSE (started in 95).
My first comment is to SuSE to reconsider their release practice. In September 2002 I bought 8.0 (and thought it was great), in January 2003 I bought 8.1 (and thought it was even better), in May 20003 I bought 8.2 (IMHO, best thing since sliced bread!). However, in less than 1 year I have spent more on SuSE than I have spent on Windows (I bought W2K in 2001 - and it is still running on one of my machines!) and been through 3 major upgrades (followed by reinstalls, etc.). This situation is annoying me. I understand that SuSE needs to make money by selling, but this policy will quickly make people like me move to another distro. I like SuSE (very much), but I cannot afford to fork out 90 every 4-5 months + the backup/reinstall (which takes several days before one gets everything to they way it was before). IMHO, SuSE should offer free upgrades through the Internet for their current installed base (and I don't mean the FTP install). BTW, I have tried the upgrade path by searching for updated RPM's (from packman and others) but something always broke with these, hence I seem to be forced to get new versions entirely.
Two. I have 8.2 installed and downloaded the KDE upgrade RPM for 3.1.2 from SuSE's website. After I upgraded, yast2 will no longer exit gracefully unless I install something. It pops the 'Cancel all Changes' dialog and will never exit regardless if you press Ok or Cancel. Am I the only one? Also the nice colour user icons from the login screen dissapeared, being replaced with the traditional black face.
Cheers! Chris PS: I'm not bit**ng, honestly. I really like SuSE but there are things I would like to see things done slightly different.
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