I dunno if my memory got the best of me but last I remember 7.1 was released in the USA on Feburary 25 after slight delays. The ftp was up around 4-5 weeks later. Feb 25->Mar->Apr->May->Jun 15 4 months but I could be wrong....Maybe somebody who bought it wants to check their credit card statements for what day they got charged. ah here it says on website: http://www.suse.com/us/suse/news/PressReleases/marketshare.html mk
From: Ben Rosenberg
To: SLE Subject: Re: [SLE] New suse 7.2 Date: Tue, 12 Jun 2001 08:36:11 -0700 Well, I don't mean to offend anyone .. at all, but I will say this ONE more TIME.
A. 7.1 was released in January 2001
B. 7.2 is being released June 2001
C. Look at a calander..count it on your fingers..I don't care. It's 6 months.
D. So from A to C we get a release schedule of '6 months'...
People are correct in say that one does not have to upgrade if they don't want to...it's the choice of the consumer.
My opinion is as I have stated before is that $140USD a year (max) for SuSE is way better then $400+ within 18 months for W2K then WinXP...and you get more and yes there are issues with somethings..but SuSE damn quick at fixing 90% of them.
If you don't want to upgrade .. don't. But don't go buy it sometime in October or November then whine that you just bought it and 7.3 is going to come out next January (yes, the Germans get not to release a product right before Christmas in the States)..I don't want to hear it..
Be forewarned that SuSE will release another distribution in about 6 months..it's WHAT THEY DO. :)
Kind Regards,
->I hear your pain but I disagree. A distro every 4 months is fine with me. It ->allows a user to skip a release once in a while. And probably the biggest ->reason why this 7.2 was hurried out is the update directories.
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