On Saturday 09 April 2005 12:43 pm, Carl William Spitzer IV wrote:
On Thu, 2005-04-07 at 16:09, Stephen Boddy wrote:
On Wednesday 06 April 2005 20:46, John Andersen wrote:
Its SO cheap compared to windows (any flavor).
I'm going to be controversial here and disagree with you. Time between Windows XP and Longhorn is going to be roughly 5 years at least. Price of an upgrade will be somewhere in the range of $125 dollars. In that time SuSE will have released ten releases (6 month release cycle). At a cost of $60 for each upgrade you're looking at $600.
I skip short releases. I usually buy only one a year. I bought 8.2 Pro and then 9.1 OEM. I am debating 9.2 with intact multimedia and 9.3 just out.
Carl, Your first YOU update on 9.3 will give you MP3 support back with optional modules IF you CHOOSE to use them. The legal issues surrounding MP3 are enough of an unknown for SUSE to break out MP3 support separately and leave it up to the user to decide if they want it or not. MP3 support is a separate module for your multimedia programs anyway so they aren't broken. Very simple 'fix'. SUSE had to do that with the Microsoft True Type fonts several releases ago. Stan