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. Dave - To get out of this list, please send email to majordomo@suse.com with this text in its body: unsubscribe suse-linux-e