O'Bieito wrote:
El Mié 18 Abr 2001 15:54, Julius escribió:
Well, I have been one of the rant-keen ones, but I must say I have my reasons; I have been using linux for sth more than a couple of years, and the first linux I tried was SuSE 5.something, but oh it was the (in)-famous Live Eval.... ok, in one hand it let me peek a little at this linux thingie without touching anything in my PC... but then I got a nice RH 5.2 from Byte magazine or the sort and that one I INSTALLED since that was what I wanted to try. After a few months twiddling I bought RH 6.1, yes I bought it and payed for it. I really never was happy with it though, and documentation really sucks. So some six months ago I got me suse 7.0 Pro and payed for it.
Well, not all of us are using linux professionally, not all of us get it payed by our firm, and not all of us can give away that happily the 60$+ that it costs, each n months when n tends to 0. Medium income is very different in different countries.
Well, I've been with Linux since 1994 and I really concern where my money goes. We do call Linux distribution business Free Software didn't we. SuSE has changed since 5.0. NO ISO image on the ftp, packing distribution in M$ way. Well, well many changes. I know it is evolution but is it right one. They get on they feet, maybe it is time to allocate money somewhere else. They have good record ( XFree.. stuff and so on ) but it is history. YaST2 - just commercial approach will be nice to have support for RAID instead. So, I intend to give a try RH, Debian or get back to ( just to see what is going on somewhere else) ftp://sunsite.ualberta.ca/pub/Mirror/Linux/slackware/slackware-7.1/iso/ " These are three ISO images of Slackware 7.1 as found on ftp.freesoftware.com. The 'install.iso' image is a bootable Slackware Linux installation disc, including everything except the bigslack/, contrib/, and source/ directories. (Actually, it's also missing the iso/ directory, for obvious reasons ;) The 'source.iso' image contains all of the source code from the source/ directory. The 'contrib.iso' image contains everything from the contrib/ directory, which is a collection of extra packages and source code. " Cheers _j