Re: [SLE] Suse 9.3
From: Fred A. Miller (fmiller_at_lightlink.com)
Date: 04/09/05
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To: suse-linux-e@suse.com Date: Fri, 8 Apr 2005 18:26:21 -0400
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
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