From: Philipp Thomas <philipp.thomas@t-link.de> Date: Thu, 27 Oct 2005 03:08:01 +0200 To: <suse-linux-e@suse.com> Subject: Re: [SLE] Confused by downloadable DVD
Shriramana Sharma [Thu, 27 Oct 2005 06:25:10 +0530]:
but does this mean that PPC people can't buy the boxed set?
Yes, unless they buy the SLES which is a bit more expensive.
Isn't SUSE missing out on revenue by not providing a boxed set for PPC customers?
Maybe, but my guess is that the group of PPC users that want to buy Linux is rather small and so there wouldn't be much profit, given that production costs per box are significantly higher for small quantities.
Yep...the desktop market for PPC is tiny, in large part due to the (INCREDIBLY FRUSTRATING!) lack of support for Airport Extreme cards under Linux. Because Broadcom/Apple are being annoying about this, about 90% of the Macs out there can't run Linux _and_ connect to the net. The IBM PPC series are mostly server class, and run the SLES version for PPC, which is available as media. - Ian (nearly crying as I write this on my beautiful macintosh, on which I can't run Linux...)