On Saturday 11 May 2002 11:00, Timothy R. Butler wrote:
I eagally await the howels from the more strident on this list, for suggesting non-cripped ISO's are a good thing; FOR SuSE....
FWIW, I can honestly say it is good for SuSE. :-) Several reasons - first they'd be reviewed more often - small e-magazines like my company's OfB.biz simply can not afford to purchase a copy of every piece of software, so things that can be downloaded are more likely to be reviewed (or if the companies are kind enough to offer review copies - something SuSE apparently does not do).
Secondly, as some of you know, I am mostly a Mandrake user these days. I would have never switched if it had not been for the fact that I was able to download an ISO of Mandrake, realize I liked it, and made the switch (which earned MDK $69 a few weeks ago when I bought my first MDK boxed set). Similarly, SuSE may be able to lure people away from other distros if they put their product up for people to d/l. Like Mandrake, they could put up a download edition approximately equal to the Personal Edition. Most people savvy enough to be burning copies of Linux probably want the Pro edition, so they may very well buy a copy if they are impressed with the distro.
-Tim
I think that is the reason they offer and have the LiveEval CD image/files for folks to download Tim, so they can try it out without buying. This gives anyone the opportunity to try it out and decide if Linux is worth moving too or if SuSE distro would be a good change for them. SuSE guys correct me here if I am not correct on this. I know I keep a copy of the older 7.2 LiveEval cd around to show folks when I setup computers. Of course, I can also take them to my office and show them a full version running also. ;o) Hope you have better luck with the MDK 8.2 you purchased than the guys I have spoke too and seen emails from Tim. Sounds like most went back to 8.1 to get a good setup. Patrick -- --- KMail v1.4 --- SuSE Linux Pro v8.0 --- Registered Linux User #225206 Magic Page Products -- Amiga-SuSE-PC Sales & Service URL: http://home.sprintmail.com/~tracerb