Re: novell-suse linux dead meat?

From: Ann (nntpmail_at_epix.net)
Date: 04/07/05 

Date: Thu, 07 Apr 2005 13:56:22 GMT

On Thu, 07 Apr 2005 12:24:12 +0200, Jan wrote:

> r wrote:
>
>> Patch an 9.3 system with yast online update? I don't think so. I have
>> 56k dialup and they outnumber broadband. It's just not feasible to
>> download updates on 56k dialup. It's time to find another distro.
>
> My guess is that another distro won't solve your problem. Every distro
> has patches. Downloadable patches will either be over broadband or
> dialup and are sometimes big. So you might spend some money on broadband
> or on a retailversion of any linuxdistro.

Isn't that the OP's point ... that retail 9.3 will require patches, out of
the box? It would be nice if broadband was universally available, at a
reasonable price, but that's not the case. Unlike 56k pots lines for 56k,
telcos are not required to lease DSL lines to competitors; cable is also
usually a monopoly. Both often cherry-pick and don't extend lines into
marginally profitable areas. That leaves satellite and wireless, which
may/not be available and/or practical options.

Credit to MS for one thing, making service packs and IE updates available
by CD.

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