New subject: [SLE] installing suse 7.3 - again ;))

17 Feb 2002

      On Sat, 16 Feb 2002 19:46:19 -0500, Bryan Tyson  wrote:
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On Saturday 16 February 2002 10:09, Dwaine wrote:
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As linux companies get a taste of money they have started to become
like Microsoft, as we know is one of the best at raking in revenue.
Just in the past year or year and half Suse and Mandrake had two
releases each with no free upgrades. Suse quit providing ISOs for
x86; with each turn of the corner linux companies decrease benefits
and scam you for more money, this will continue to increase.
You must be joking. Buy the boxed set and quit complaining. For all you
get they're practically giving it away.
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In the coming years linux marketing will be no different than the
other evil empire. It won't be long and people will be angry at linux
and be looking for alternatives.
In my opinion the terms of GNU licensing and the nature of the open
source community will prevent this from happening.
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Myself have found Windows 2000 a much better OS than any linux I've
worked with, W2k always runs faster and has a well laid out GUI with
polished features; KDE is clunky and slow with a 100x more bugs and
hicups than you will ever find in Windows 2000.
Win2k is the best version of Windows I've used. However, it does not
come close to the enjoyment I get from my SuSE/KDE system. SuSE has the
additional advantage that when I buy the pro set for $70 I not only
have an outstanding OS, but 2300 applications that include virtually
anything I could possibly need. Contrastingly, once I pay my $200 or
whatever Win2k pro costs, I still need to spend hundreds or even
thousands to load the system with the applications I need to be
productive.
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I think Microsoft is excellent at developing a product if they
concentrated there efforts on a version of linux they would blow the
doors off all other linux companies.
I agree MS has produced some very nice software. MS has also produced
some poor software. Whether or not they could "blow the doors off"
other Linux companies is not at all certain.
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ok, everything above this line i dont give a crap about, it aint got nothing to do with me,
everything below it, tho does
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Ever seince SuSE version 7.1, SuSE has decided to become little
money hungry >bastards and they no longer have the install ISO's on
line, but they are available to paying >customers.
This poster is the one who sounds money hungry to me. In my opinion, if
we want SuSE and other companies to be able to continue releasing this
great software, the least we can do is buy the box.
have you even read any of my other posts conserning this? It sounds like you havent.

AGAIN
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I do fully belive in supporting people that make good products, SuSE makes excelent Software. And I DO
SUPPORT them WHEN and WHERE EVER I can. I just dont make a whole fuck load of money like some people
I basicaly live pay check to pay check. AND CAN NOT AFFORD to go out and buy SuSE every damn time
they come out with a new release of their distro.   I am in NOW WAY attacking their software, instead I AM
Attacking their buisness decision to remove their ISO's off of their FTP server.  This really screws people
like me, people courious about suse, and newbies alike, because they  left with the option of 

1) package by package download and install off of the hdd (and belive me, ALOT of people dont know how to do this)

2) ftp install (again alot of people really dont know how to go about doing this)

3) buying it (SuSE hopes for this) AND alot of people that want to try out suse dont want to go spend the money on something
     they might not like, and dont want to get the live eval cd's because it really doesnt do anything for them or they would rather
      use demo linux or already have demo linux. So alot of newbies and courious parties move on because like I said up there
      ALOT of people dont know how to go about download and installing from the hard drive or doing an ftp install.

also, there just isnt a whole lot from suse on the subjects concerning the download package by package, and what there is
isnt very helpfull, there is not to much out there on ftp install either. so most people are just about left with the 3rd option
and this is EXACTLY what SuSE want, and that is a buisness decission that I dont agree with. I AM NOT money hungry
or anything like that. And I dont not wish to see the fall of SuSE. I just think that they should go back to having the minimal
istall iso's on their ftp site and mirrors.  plain and simple

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