Re: I suse support worth the money?

From: Kevin Nathan (knathan_at_project54.com)
Date: 06/23/04 

Date: Wed, 23 Jun 2004 12:45:58 -0600

On Wed, 23 Jun 2004 18:24:27 GMT
"plasmo64" <freshpond.gnc@verizon.net> wrote:

> the retailbox runs for about 80.00 and the only
> difference is the box, manual, and suse support. Is it worth the
> difference in price?

The books in the Pro version, and the book in the Update version are
worth the price all by themselves. The Update version is the full Pro
version without the User Guide (it's available on the CDs, though) and
runs around 60USD.

If the CDs from pricegrabber are just copies, you are taking a risk that
might be small or might be large. I knew someone who ordered one of the
cheap sets of CDs (about $10) and got a bootable CD1 of 8.2 instead of
9.1 and the rest of the CDs were blank or unreadable. He tried from
three other sites and all had problems. After spending about $45, he
gave up, and blamed SUSE! :-) Oh, well . . . 

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