On Wed, Sep 06, 2006 at 10:02:45PM -0800, John Andersen wrote:
On Wednesday 06 September 2006 12:00, Andreas Jaeger wrote:
Unfortunately the current libzypp update takes longer than anticipated, so have some more patience please.
I'd rather have it RIGHT than right now.
Note: We will only to update the ISOs on the ftp server (not the Live Image and not the retail boxes),
This would be really great. But why not the other way around?
Release the download ISO's 3 months earlier than the boxed set. That way competent users <breaks arm patting self on back> would test it and find show stopper and major annoyances (like libzypp) before wasting the plastic to burn DVDs.
By the time the boxed set came out, maybe 3 months later (and concurrent with the corresponding release of SLED), hopefully to be snapped up by desktop users and small businesses, it would be rock solid, and worth the money.
Well, SLED is more on a 2 year product cycle. And this way the box cannot make money at all. Germany had a lot of Linux magazines publishing 10.1 with their own additions for less money than we can even produce the boxes for. In the end this is likely the way it will go, even now our box revenue is pretty small. Ciao, MArcus