On Friday 31 December 2004 21:30, Joaquin Menchaca wrote:
SuSE Pro simply has more development stuff included on the cd/dvd's. Even that is available for FREE, if you want to download it. Personally, I buy the pro version cause I dont want to screw with more downloads. If you use apt, you can get it all from a command line, again for FREE.
Like others have been tryijng to tell you, YOU have a choice, pay for the pro version or wait and download it for free or have someone else prepare the cds for you for about 5 bucks. It;s all about choice. Choices you dont get with other OS's.
I liked it when one could download SuSE for free before, and I like it when companies like Oracle and Sun, and even Microsoft, have evaluation/non-commercial options to get at their software and try it. It many sales, especially enterprise, they have a POC phase, i.e. Proof-Of-Concept. I don't see why we can have some form of this, rather than just blindly pay, and find out later it doesn't work. :-(
It has been a very long time since it was available for free in .iso format. IIRC, the last time was somewhere around 6.4 for the eval version. That was about 1998 or so. Since that time, the only way to get it 'free' was to wait until it came out on the ftp sites.
No one is requiring you to pay before you try, you just have to exert a little effort to find the free version. Borrow it from a friend or download it when it becomes available.
Isn't borrowing it from a friend and installing it ILLEGAL? Maybe that's the thing in Europe, but I couldn't do this on a professional basis.
I would think twice about what you are saying. SUSE has always had a policy of allowing it to be given away. You couldn't charge for it. I've hooked a few of my friends this way. You can also install the same one on as many computers as you want. I've got 9.1 installed on two computers right now, and will upgrade both of those to 9.2 soon. That will make three computers here at home with the same 'copy' installed. You definitely can't legally do that with Windows.
Anyhow, combine with that and and users reporting problems, SuSE doesn't seem like a viable platform at this stage, or at least one cannot find out... :-)
You have a choice. Wait until it comes out on the ftp sites which shouldn't be too far into the future, or purchase it. Go to Amazon, and get the upgrade version. The only difference is the number of books you get. The DVD/CD's are identical. It's quite a bit cheaper and you get everything to try. Mike -- Powered by SuSE 9.2 Kernel 2.6.8 KDE 3.3.0 Kmail 1.7.1 For Mondo/Mindi backup support go to http://www.mikenjane.net/~mike 11:24pm up 9:54, 3 users, load average: 2.22, 2.29, 2.73