I agree with Don. For all those people who are whining, all I can say is this... go compare the SuSE Professional Version (as it will now be known) to the equivalent RedHat Distro. One, I think you'll find it even more expensive and two, it's still the same poorly engineer RedHat distro - it just has a few more packages, that users of SuSE just take for granted. Even at double the price, SuSE is a pretty good deal. - Herman On Sat, 12 Aug 2000, Don Hansford wrote: ->> ->>> Thats theSAME PRICE PAID FOR A FULL 6 CD SET WITH MANUAL FOR 6.4 ->>> ->>> SO that means your NOW Getting LESS fo the same $29.99 ->>> OR pay more to get what is closer to the previos product. ->> ->>Dunno what country you people come from, but we have this thing called ->>"Inflation". Basically it means that, as time goes by, costs get higher. ->>Personally, if SuSE was double it's current price, I'd pay that, too. ->>Want some reasons? (1) The amount of time and effort they put into ->>setting up the distro is worth the bucks to me. (2) SuSE puts a hell of ->>a lot back into Open Source development. To me that is worth more than ->>the actual CDs. (3) You said words to the effect that it would cost as ->>much to keep up with SuSE, as it would to buy NT. If you add to NT's ->>price the 'extras' you get with SuSE, you would see a real bargain; for ->>example; MSOffice (StarOffice), Visual Studio (Python, Perl, C/C++ ->>compilers, Java, PHP etc), IIS/BackOffice (Apache), the list could go on ->>......in short, if you set up a MS system with comparable apps that come ->>with SuSE, you would be well into thousands of dollars, not to mention ->>the hard drive space and resources those apps would take up under NT. ->> ->>And, by the way, on this list (at least), there is no need to SHOUT! :-) ->>-- ->> ->>This Email is 100% Virus Free! ->>How do I know? Because no Microsoft ->>products were used to generate it! ->> ->>Regards Don Hansford ->>ECKYTECH COMPUTING ->>SuSE Linux 6.4 ->> ->>-- ->>To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe@suse.com ->>For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com ->>Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/support/faq ->> -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe@suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/support/faq