On Sun, Sep 10, 2000 at 09:47:37PM -0600, Monte Milanuk wrote:
"Victor R. Cardona" wrote:
SuSE has always delayed putting their distributions up for a couple/few weeks. Why shouldn't they be given the opportunity to make a little money first?
I think that's a bunch of crap. Mandrake makes the full developer's version available, and generally makes the ftp version (including iso's) available almost before the official announcement gets out. And lord knows they (Mandrake) is just going bankrupt, what with 30% of the US market and growing, vs. SuSE's ~6%. A lot of that is from the deal Mandrake has w/ MacMillan Publishing, admittedly, and we all have our own opinions on the relative merits of Linux-Mandrake, but the point remains that the 'money' excuse is BS. Mandrake does have the option for crypto -- via download. Apparently that lets them slide thru the cracks in the export barrier that we hear about from SuSE. Considering the relatively small size of the crypto compared to the rest of the distro, you'd think there would be a better way around the export laws than just waiting 6-8 wks, like shipping the whole distro crypto-clean, and making it an added iso image that people can download and install, or something.
The crypto is not the only thing that slows SuSE down. I am sure that it is not hard for them to exclude the crypto rpms on their U.S. version master. Mandrake is a whole different beast altogether. It was not started as a business. The mandrake developers don't have to deal with distribution since that is done for them by Macmillan. Mandrake has lower development costs because of all the Red Hat code that they borrow. You are comparing apples and oranges here. Victor -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe@suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/support/faq