Re: SLED 10: no updates after 60 days?



Robert wrote:
"Yugo" <nobody@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:12bo700jek2h9f@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

Note the words "Evaluation version" above. The 60 days applies to
the "Evaluation version" of SLED 10.

SLED 10 is not free. If you want a NON-evaluation version,
you have to buy it.

Or, you can use OpenSuse 10.1 that is buggy as hell or wait for 10.2 around Christmas hoping that it will be any better... or use a real open source distro that doesn't have two categories of users.

I'll consider that.


Seconded, don't like this SLED business they have concocted. I'd rather they didn't call it Linux if they're gonna charge cash for it.

I don't mind them charging cash if people want support. As Houghi points out, its completely GPL legal. But I do mind them providing a bothed up version of OpenSuse and a polished version of SLED. That's the way Red Hat acted at first with Fedora, but they learned the hard way. Obviously Suse hasn't learned from Red Hat errors. This company is badly mismanaged.

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