Michael Loeffler wrote:
On Thursday 07 February 2008, Aaron Kulkis wrote:
On Tuesday 05 February 2008 18:03, Aaron Kulkis wrote:
Perhaps SUSE could team up with the people who publish those Linux Bible books to include a CD. They do publish a SUSE Bible. It already comes with a DVD containing Suse. Unfortunately, every SuSE Linux Bible or Redhat Linux Bible I've ever seen on store shelves has a CD or DVD of a version which is horridly out of date Right. That's the biggest problem with that approach. Books seem to have a much longer shelf life than software. You can still easily get a Linux book with a 9.1 CD / DVD these days. And even though that book's sections about installation might be outdated, the rest might not, so you can't really blame the book store or the publisher that much. And if you wanted to show someone Linux...would you even
Stefan Hundhammer wrote: think of showing him 9.1 now, in 2008?
THAT's the big problem with the book-store method.
It would be MUCH better to shrink-wrap the book with the CD/DVD packet OUTSIDE, in front of the front-cover of the book, with the SuSE Version number plainly visable, so that the primary product is the "current software," not the book. But this still won't change the shelf life cycle. After 18 months this software with an additional book is pretty outdated as well. M
But who goes to the bookstore looking for SOFTWARE? Nobody has given a satisfactory answer to that question. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org