Re: I hope the suSE team can read this!

From: Synchrodude (me_at_here.com)
Date: 02/05/04 

Date: Wed, 04 Feb 2004 22:44:56 -0800

Jeremiah D. Powell wrote:

> Synchrodude wrote:
>
>> Amnon Feiner wrote:
>>
>>> This why you have to work harder;
>>>
>>> Wood Contour Inc.
>>> My catalog for Germany is in German, for the USA in English...
>>
>>
>> How big is the book that comes with windows again?
>>
> 129 pages [0].
>
> The game is called catch up. Commercial distributors of Linux are still
> playing this game in many places. Whether it be catching up to M$, BSD,
> or Apple, many of these cultures/corporations have created very good
> things that Linux can use to  great advantage.
>
> I run Linux professionally as a sysadmin for a small company. I was once
> the president of my University's LUG.
>
> I bought boxed sets of SuSE for the manuals, as well as the CD's. You
> downloaded yours for free? Well, I'm happy for you. Go find a printer.
>
> Nothing online will help you when you can't get a prompt up[1]. And dead
> trees are more interesting in the lavatory than laptops that make your
> knees blisteringly hot.
>
>
> Sincerely,
>
> Jeremiah
>
> [0]I brought a used laptop from a friend of a friend. I requested the CD's
> and License for the Windows 98 that came with the laptop. It included a
> 129 page booklet on how to use Windows 98. 129 pages included
> screenshots,
> a dictionary, beginners and advanced sections. This is not counting the
> index or EULA.
>
> [1] Any other prompt than a non-networked console. With no man pages yet
> installed. Don't belive it happens? Just mention 'bad drive geometry'
> and 'kernel panic' in the appropriately dark sections of alt.os.linux

So you haven't seen the 11 page "manual" that comes with XP Home edition
then :)
I too have bought the boxed versions of Suse 8.2 and 9.0 also because it
comes with a large book cause I also am a newbie with Linux. And I am
converting friends all the time. 

-- 
Synchrodude the Legend
You only have too much fuel if you are on fire.

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