On Fri April 8 2005 4:58 pm, Stephen Boddy wrote:
On Friday 08 April 2005 18:33, Fred A. Miller wrote:
On Thu April 7 2005 7:09 pm, Stephen Boddy wrote:
On Wednesday 06 April 2005 20:46, John Andersen wrote:
Its SO cheap compared to windows (any flavor).
I'm going to be controversial here and disagree with you.
I probably should have said "I'm going to play devil's advocate here". Cut me in half and you'll find a green gecko in there. I've used, and mostly enjoyed, SuSE since the 5 or 6 series.
So have I.....since 5.* something. :)
Time between Windows XP and Longhorn is going to be roughly 5 years at least. Price of an upgrade will be somewhere in the range of $125 dollars.
You don't know that - NO pricing has been published by MickySoft.
I took a price off the net for a WinXP Pro upgrade. I wouldn't expect M$ to bump this up too much. They struggled to convince a large percentage that XP was necessary. Saddling Longhorn with a significantly larger upgrade cost will really damage the take-up.
It's unknown, and their R&D costs are HUGE on this project.
In that time SuSE will have released ten releases (6 month release cycle). At a cost of $60 for each upgrade you're looking at $600.
I appreciate the significant differences between a Windows release and a SuSE release, and I do like SuSE, but I do wonder about this continuous upgrade path. If anything I'd be happier with a yearly release on the grounds of actually having the OS installed for a reasonable amount of time.
Then, do as some do and only buy it once a year......simple enough.
I think I'm just getting jaded in my old age, (32 ;-) The last few releases have been a bit hit and miss in places, and I just haven't felt "compelled" to buy upgrades. That's not quite the right word, perhaps "excited enough" is better.
I always get excited about a new release. If someting isn't right in it, I bitch......everyone here knows that. However, having said that, there's also NO ONE who is a bigger supporter of SUSE than me.
The big selling point of SuSE (and most other distros) is the packaging of software, but this has it's downsides too. Sometimes I have to start messing around compiling and installing stuff that SuSE don't do, which defeats the purpose of having package management. I dabbled with gentoo for a week or two, but even with a fairly light system, all the constant compiling started to bore me. I think I need to go and contemplate my navel for a while and figure out what I want from my distro.
Get the lint outta it, and maybe you can think clearer. :) :) Fred -- The only bug free software from MickySoft is still shrink-wrapped in their warehouse..."