On Sunday 22 June 2003 10:02, Chris Carter wrote:
Hi,
I'm new to the list but not new to Linux or SuSE (started in 95).
My first comment is to SuSE to reconsider their release practice. In September 2002 I bought 8.0 (and thought it was great), in January 2003 I bought 8.1 (and thought it was even better), in May 20003 I bought 8.2 (IMHO, best thing since sliced bread!). However, in less than 1 year I have spent more on SuSE than I have spent on Windows (I bought W2K in 2001 - and it is still running on one of my machines!) and been through 3 major upgrades (followed by reinstalls, etc.). This situation is annoying me. I understand that SuSE needs to make money by selling, but this policy will quickly make people like me move to another distro. I like SuSE (very much), but I cannot afford to fork out 90 every 4-5 months + the backup/reinstall (which takes several days before one gets everything to they way it was before). IMHO, SuSE should offer free upgrades through the Internet for their current installed base (and I don't mean the FTP install). BTW, I have tried the upgrade path by searching for updated RPM's (from packman and others) but something always broke with these, hence I seem to be forced to get new versions entirely.
Hi and some very good points. For a single user then yes. If you can't do the ftp installation it's going to cost you. But for us there is no alternative. We are a small international school on a tight budget. Running an 18 node lan under anything but Linux would be financially out of the question. Steve.