On Fri, Feb 02, 2001 at 11:35:30PM -0500, napi5 wrote:
Oh also cliff,
You're really that upset with SuSE 7.0? Do you think there're getting that carried away with the $ thing?
Well, this discussion has emerged here before. Yes I do. The personal/professional bullshit is nothing other than a money spinner. Since 99% of the software on the CD's is open-sourced, or at least on a free-for-personal use license, they are not actually giving you anything at all with the extra money, execpt the cost of a couple of extra CD's, some written material, and an extra 30 days of worthless support. Also they know that a lot of people will buy the "professional" because they are worried they will be missing something. It stinks. As I said before SuSE is out Red-Hatting Redhat, with the difference being you can make copies of Red Hat CD's, you cannot with SuSe's !. I will tell you this. See what you think. I live in Holland and here they had a so-called Dutch Version of SuSe 7.0. This was the same as the English Language version of SuSE professional, except much cheaper, and with the following diffrerences: - The installation guide was in Dutch, all otehr guides in English. - Staroffice had the Dutch language module and not the English one. - There was no DVD copy of the software. - The installation program defualts to Dutch (no big deal change it) - 60 days worthless support instead of 90 Now - I don't care about the Dutch language bit, but I was going to buy the English language one. In the end, by a process of deduction I realised that the Dutch version was the professional one at chepaer price. And so it was... (any of you want to order it from me, my markup is very small ..lol..). I presume it is the sme for Italian, French (well maybe not french) ... etc.. So it goes. I like the Suse distribution, but let's not be romantic about their aspirations. They take no notice of any complaints or suggestions anyway. Just the way it is... Cliff