On 4/2/06, Greg Wallace <gregwallace@fastmail.fm> wrote:
When 10.0 came out, there was much discussion about the fact that you no longer got the Admin manual, just a, more or less, SuSE Linux for Dummies User Guide (okay, maybe it's a little better than that (or not as good?)). Many people were saying they should have just downloaded the software and not bought the retail version, since many of them were buying the retail version, at least in part, because of the nice handy Admin manual that came with it (though the matter was then raised as to how someone should be paying something to Novell to support the efforts being made by to improve the product). I guess this whole issue will be front and center again with the upcoming release. Buy the boxed set, or download, that is the question. Then again, I don't recall whether the downloads were actually a "legitimate" way of obtaining the product or not, though it would seem that Novell would not be in the business of giving away something they were simultaneously selling(?).
User manual is not provided in India. As usual, a card came along which promises 90 days installation support, but there seems no facility to register in the URL given (http://support.novell.com). My vendor was quite surprised with the order, and offered OpenSUSE CDs for a fraction of the cost. Maybe next time I will have to rethink. Bye -- One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man. -- Elbert Hubbard