Doug McGarrett <dmcgarrett@optonline.net> writes:
[...] I disagree with your rant. I would like to see the return of SuSE Pro, and I don't mind paying $60 or so for it, but I do mind paying $200 or so for SLES or SLED (I don't understand the difference) and I want the manuals.
SUSE Pro is still available, it's called openSUSE now and available e.g. from shop.novell.com
You admit that SuSE Pro paid for itself, it came with the manuals, and you could buy it at a decent bookstore. And it came with some non-open-source things that were useful. What was wrong with that system? Why must we
And today all of that is available from day 1 - unless previously - to download from the internet (ok, you cannot download printed books, just pdfs).
bow down to Microsoft? It seems that they now own SuSE, and are determined to make it less and less attractive. If I didn't have a whole batch of stored files on this stable, older SuSE distro, I would try something else in a minute. And I may, anyway.
There's no significant between SUSE Pro and e.g. openSUSE 10.3, Andreas -- Andreas Jaeger, Director Platform / openSUSE, aj@suse.de SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, GF: Markus Rex, HRB 16746 (AG Nürnberg) Maxfeldstr. 5, 90409 Nürnberg, Germany GPG fingerprint = 93A3 365E CE47 B889 DF7F FED1 389A 563C C272 A126