On Thursday 08 February 2001 23:35, you wrote:

"Well put"???? Hardly.... If all you are getting was the kernel and the GNU tools to make a simple OS then perhaps your comments would be accurate. But, I do believe you are 'forgetting" to consider most of the features that make SuSE the finely engineered product that it is. Perhaps if you were to go play with RH for a while you might appreciate YaST, the excellent manuals, and the fine collection of software present on the 6 CDs, most of which have been tailored to be automatically installed (or uninstalled) in/on all appropriate config files, menus, man pages, etc...

If putting together a high quality distro is so cheap and easy then by all means stop bothering folks on this list and go to http://linuxfromscratch.com and build your own. Think of all the money you will save.... and all the time you will lose. JLK

____________________________________________________________________ I have to agree with Jerry, the cost of $80.00 for SuSE 7.1 professional is nothing compared with the benefits it confers. When I used DOS (I never used M$ windows; I hated it from the first time I saw 3.1) a Borland compiler was $ 150.00! gcc and kdbg work much better! SuSE comes loaded with lots of good software. KDE 2 is extremely valuable and shows terrific promise. The equivalent of SciLab, Octave or MuPad would cost a *LOT* if it had to be gotten for M$ windows. M$ windows dosen't come with anyting like GIMP, Xfig or ImageMagik. I am not a computer person so I really appreciate things like YAST. I am delighted to get 7 CD's of software; downloading that stuff from the internet is a pain. Just my 2 cents. -- Cheers, Jonathan ------------------------------------------------------- -- Cheers, Jonathan