On Wed, 2004-10-20 at 12:23 -0500, David Krider wrote:
Greg Freemyer wrote:
Hmmn, community desktop ... dread phrase! I wonder what that means. It makes me think we'd all better buy 9.2 mighty fast lest it turns out to be the last of a very fine run.
I think they are talking about support, not delivery.
I have bought every release of SuSE since 6.2, the Pro version since they started it, always for personal use. I contacted support SuSE once, over an issue in 8.1, I think (can't remember) and had a very negative experience, even when I offered to use paid support. I'm not bashing SuSE support, but I think quite simply it is more geared towards the business user and the rest of us turn to resources like this list when we need help. Hopefully, then those of us who can, will return the favour by helping others. So, for me, at least, this has always been a community distro and I can't see that this will change. Actually, on this occasion, I decided NOT to buy 9.2, as I think I've probably got "9.3" on my system, with James' ulb-gnome 2.8. I do think there is a world of difference, though, between SuSE and Fedora, in terms of usability and stability: again, I see no evidence as yet that that might change. I dabble in lots of different distros and the outcome is always the same eventually - I come back to SuSE for day-to-day use. Just my thoughts. David -- Registered Linux User No 207521 The Linux Counter: http://counter.li.org/ "The above is my personal opinion and does not necessarily reflect that of the little voices in my head."