[Nottingham] SuSE Goodies (was: NTL Cache Performance Suggestions)

[Bob Winter]

It would be nice to think Mandrake's model will turn out to be 
financially viable

.waffle wrote:

>Ok, here's my two pence:
>
>I want to be able to get the free CD's _first_ to try it out. Ok, they've
>partly gone for this by doing a LiveEval, but it just ain't the same. A 1 CD
>HD installable option would be much nicer. I agree by the way about the
>manuals and the DVD's... Far more convenient. That's why I bought Redhat 7.3
>(although to be honest, it was the cheapest version available, as I knew 8.0
>was around the corner). If I was going to use SuSE in a professional
>context, yeah, I'd pay £70 every time, but I'd prefer if there was a
>personal edition costing £20 or less, rather than the £30/£40 it is at the
>moment. And a nice bog-reading book.
>
>So basically, I agree with you, but I feel they charge too much, and have
>hence consigned themselves to serious customers, rather than the dabblers
>(hey, we've all got our roots in dabbling)
>
>.waffle
>
>
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Robert Davies" <rob_davies@ntlworld.com>
>To: <nottingham@mailman.lug.org.uk>
>Sent: Sunday, March 02, 2003 2:32 PM
>Subject: Re: [Nottingham] SuSE Goodies (was: NTL Cache Performance
>Suggestions)
>
>
>| On Sunday 02 March 2003 12:16, you wrote:
>| > On Sun, 2 Mar 2003, Robert Davies wrote:
>| > > On Saturday 01 March 2003 23:49, you wrote:
>| > > > That's piracy. Seriously! SuSE Personal contains non-GPL software.
>| > >
>| > > Sorry but SuSE Linux installs fine via ftp, you do not need ISO's, you
>| > > can use boot floppy or burn a small bootcd and then use DHCP to a
>router
>| > > for the installation, possibly using an http/ftp proxy cache (appears
>| > > HTTP generally faster).
>| >
>| > Roger Whittaker from SuSE UK should be turning up to Wednesday's talk by
>| > Richard Hegg and mentioned something about goodies for the LUG.
>| >
>| > Show up and you never know what you might go away with...  ;-)
>|
>| Yep, I get a bit pissed off seeing repeated SuSE FUD on uk.os.linux and
>| elsewhere on net, by those who prefer to repeat 'Net myths' without
>checking.
>|
>| Fact is in many ways (having run RH in commercial installation) SuSE is
>| actually much more Hacker Friendly and they give you much more tech info
>and
>| are more approachable.  I left RH because of the support, which got even
>| worse, as they steered ppl to RH Network.
>|
>| I buy the upgrades just to have the manual and DVD for convenience, and
>help
>| support the future of Linux, SuSE back many projects like ALSA, Kernel-VM,
>| ReiserFS, KDE, joystick code, USB and do punch their weight.
>|
>| I think the cheap CD ppl took a dislike because they couldn't burn SuSE
>ISO's
>| and sell them, which is source of a lot of the non-GPL / non-Free distro
>talk
>| comes from.
>|
>| Rob
>|
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