I'd like to know as well. I'm quite happy with SuSE 8.2 Pro. But there is so much software included in SuSE that perhaps they have included new revisions of a lot of software that would never make the sales-bullet-points. There were some rough edges that may have been cleared up as well. For $49 upgrade, I'll probably pay it at least once. See what the future SuSE distro holds. Otherwise, 8.2 is great for what I do, which includes audio editing, development, and server stuff. Their video editing stuff was broad but didn't support many file formats. I'm hoping that's one of the bonuses of 9.0, but we'll see.
This is why SCO was screwed up about not having a desktop (ok, so they were screwed about a good many things). I learn about how good a distro is by using it on my desktop. It's something I have control over but only affects me. Baptism by fire is another way of looking at it. The problem economically is that Desktop Linux is so powerful as a server that the fear of not selling servers is somewhat real... This is why RedHat's approach to ES seems good to me. Give the distro away for download, charge for updates and support. That allows us support personnel to learn it and possibly love it, while charging for the real enterprise value-add: support. SuSE charges a little without making ISO's available but so long as their Professional distro is still so reasonable ($80 is really a great buy for what you get) it's worth it for those not averse to non-RH distros. Then their's the Debain/Slackies (and associated distros) who will be a cornerstone of Linux for many years to come. The Debian crowd, in their religion of free-software, provide the Linux community a great anchor from which many corporate distros cannot stray far... So long as there are solid, fully free and "libre" distros, the costs associated with Corporate distributions will have to stay reasonable in cost. The competition will require it. Thanks to all distro maintainers, corporate or otherwise. This community has a great deal to offer, and a great deal to gain in the years to come. Quality of OpenSource, on the whole, will only improve. Cruft has no place in the long-term plans. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Roger Oberholtzer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, October 30, 2003 3:34 AM Subject: Re: SUSE 9.0 is out now > Aside from minor version bumps in the kernel and KDE, does anyone know why > SuSE did a major version bump from 8 to 9 on this? We are just now setting > up to use 8.2 in our systems. Anyone have a good argument for us going with > 9 instead? > > On Wed, 29 Oct 2003 19:31:15 -0800 > "Mike McKinlay" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > folks: > > For those interested some news from SUSE > > Mike > > > > > > SUSE is proud to announce that version 9.0 of our award winning Linux > > Operating System is now shipping in the Americas. We've been busy shipping > > out pre-orders and retail chain orders as fast as we possibly can. > > > > We're sure you will find 9.0 to be the best Linux distribution ever - > > with the most complete hardware support and software packages. > > > > SUSE 9.0 now supports most Winmodems automatically and auto-detects your > > wireless cards for seamless Internet connections. > > > > We have also bundled the latest release of Open-Office, version 1.1, with > > new features such as saving documents directly to pdf or exporting your > > presentations to the Flash format. You now have every reason to "Simply > > Change" from proprietary Office solutions. > > > > Other new features include: > > -------------------------- > > PERSONAl $29.95 > > o K3B, Drag & Drop DVD Burning > > o Kopete, Centrally supports all IM services > > o Desktop publishing with Scribus 1.0 > > > > PROFESSIONAL $79.95 [Update $49.95] > > o Resize and partition NTFS Filesystems > > o Video editing application MainActor 5 (demo version) > > o Samba 2.2.8 for Windows file sharing > > o KDE 3.1.4 & Gnome 2.2.2 > > o Kernel 2.4.21 and 2.6.0-test > > > > o NEW! 64bit version available for AMD64 $119.95 > > > > > > You can purchase your copy from our on-line store: > > -------------------------------------------------- > > http://shop.suse.com/suse > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Linux-users mailing list > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc -> > > http://smtp.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users > > > > > -- > +····························+·······························+ > · Roger Oberholtzer · E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] · > · OPQ Systems AB · WWW: http://www.opq.se/ · > · Erik Dahlbergsgatan 41-43 · Phone: Int + 46 8 314223 · > · 115 34 Stockholm · Mobile: Int + 46 733 621657 · > · Sweden · Fax: Int + 46 8 302602 · > +····························+·······························+ > > _______________________________________________ > Linux-users mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc -> http://smtp.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users > > > _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc -> http://smtp.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
