Same here in the UK. ADSL is just too expensive (@ ~?40 per month) and I really don't want to have to download stuff, have it all sitting on my HD or cut it in my own time to CDs. This is all work and time I'm happy to pay someone else to do. Please continue with the way things are! k. On Wednesday, October 18, 2000 6:30 AM, Dennis [SMTP:dlbt@pacific.net.sg] wrote:

This is not going to work in country like Singapore with the horrible ADSL infrastructure monopolised by only one company. I have taken on average 10 hours to ftp an ISO image. And our so-called ADSL is on time-based or capacity-based, very expensive. Cable modem service here is also hopeless at time, a 33.6k dial-up beats the cable modem most of the time at night.

Dennis @Singapore

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I still think they should move away from the CDs and towards

distribution

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via limited access ftp through membership fees. They could give those members also the ability to burn a copy of an official release iso pack and not only an evaluation one.

SuSE then could give access sooner to the ones who are paying and they also could give those members access to beta ftp versions before they come out to lessen the amount of bugs once officially released.

It would bring customers closer to the development process. They could also create a SuSE memberbook series which gets revised every 2 years and sent out to all members. That they members have documentation but don't have 4 versions of almost the same manuals.

I know it sounds like a lot of work to implement but it may be useful and the right way to cut costs for SuSE as well as SuSE users.

SuSE comes with a lot of packages. I can't imagine the amount of work it is to keep track of them all. I always wondered why SuSE doesn't create a 'community' which takes care of packaging the smaller numerous apps.

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