Yes, I agree wholeheartedly, SuSE is a nice distro, and I am happy to hear that SuSE prospers in the USA. Unfortunately I have to say : - First : I am very disappointed that SuSE forgot the French Market. I know SuSE france was closed down due to new strategy and economical reason, but is really unbelievable that such companies like SuSE forget the French (and on a wider view : Quebec, Belgium and French Switzerland) market. They (SuSE staff) don't bother even to show their products on Linux Expos if it is located in France. May be French market is not viable though. But MandrakeSoft is unfortunately dying and Redhat is well implanted in France. - Second : I have SuSE 8.0 Pro and I noticed that the support from SuSE is not as good as it was 3 years ago : I experienced lot of problems with SuSE 6.3 (I was a newbie) and they helped me even if the question was not covered in the support (like SDL or multimedias libraries, printers, and so on). moreover, they responde dvery quickly (2 days or 3) Now when I asked question (it was 10 months ago), I almost never received satisfaction : either the subject was not covered or I never received response. I don't know now. Fortunately I discovered (thanks to SuSE indeed) I discovered this mailing list and I am happy. I like SuSE distro : LSB compliant, scripts understandable, very well structured, almost no major problems (Example : On redhat 8 it is impossible at work to install Quake 3 demo or even to use a Digital Camera (that craches the Redhat System) whereas on SuSE 8.1 everything goes smoothly). The only problem I got was the impossible way to generate my self Gnome 2.2 RPM for SuSE from sources, because I am not experienced enough to write my own spec for some tar.gz packages (I don't want to install Gnome 2.2 directly from sources though, I want to keep a clean distro because I work on it) If the support and Commercial department were as good as the engineer department from SuSE, I am sure this distro would be more known. This is not a troll, I don't undestand the politic of SuSE. Paul Benjamin wrote:
That is good to hear. I love SuSE mainly because it is the only distribution that I found that tries to put programs in an orderly way. I hated when everything got dumped in c:\windows ten years ago and don't thing dumping everything in /usr/bin is much smarter.
I hope that SuSE and Linux prospers.
pben
On Sunday 20 April 2003 09:46 am, Michael Hasenstein wrote:
SuSE Oakland has hired several people since, and in early summer is moving into a larger office... some very large companies have started ordering products and support, reason is the interest from the S&P 500 has grown significantly.
Michael