Tim has been around since this thread started. Unfurtunatly it still looks like a Red Hat / M$ type pricing scheam or at the very least an atempt to rais the price , hence offering a lower priced striped down version. At one of the NYC linux meeting there was one given by SUSE folks , and they mentioned that there was a split down the road to a desktop type version and a server type version. No mention of pricing was made or alluded to. Unfurtanblatly I REALY do like the suse product , as its quality is very good , and those six CDS hold almost anything under the sun. I have 5 machines here at work , so If I still need to buy a version at $70.00 (OUCHHHHH) Its still cost effective as I load it on several boxes. It deoes seeem like the market is moving quit a bit more to M$ like pricing , which I am unhappy with. however LINUX is like an insurance poilicy , when disaster strikes , there is allways onother distro to jump to. Laately I have been reading up on debian , and may even toss it on a box. Mandrake and som of the other distros are just too commersialized at the moment. To bas suse is moving in that direction. Howevewr I will keep an open mind and see what actualy ships and ends up on store shelfs. I realuy dont look foward to having to get an "upgrade" edition direct from suse. there upgrade subscription was a disaster and never worked right. So much so that they moved to a distributer type set up of shipping it to retiales instead, as that way they could ship complete skids and let them sell the indivudual boxes at retial. Hence the markdowns and avialablity of a complete retial box with manuals for $29.00 at compusa ect... At 01:49 PM 8/18/2000 -0500, Timothy R. Butler wrote:
Derek,
Are you serious Tim? You've been on this list a while, so how could you have missed the constant yelping from people who've installed SuSE-6.4 and are having problems with Netscape crashing more often than it "should" ;).
Yeah. I've ignored most of the Netscape crash messages just for the simple fact that really Internet Explorer in a copy of Windows with a corrupt registry almost runs better. ;-) I admit with as much volume as this list has in mail, a lot of times I pick and choose what messages I read. I'll have to look into that 6.4 patch - I haven't taken the time to upgrade anything in 6.4 except for KDE (I'm running 1.92) and XMMS (I happened to already have a newer RPM). This is definitely another case and point _why_ SuSE shouldn't raise their prices, I must say (not that RedHat was much better in my experience, but I wouldn't like to think of SuSE as another RedHat). Maybe this whole group should switch to Stormix/Debian... <g> nah, I'd miss YaST too much.
Best, Tim
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