scsijon wrote:
Decided not to redirect the current thread, hopefully you agree.
It is verry good someone starts stating something like this.
My thoughts are
Novell SuSE - As current from the old SuSE Linux including
Commercial Packages
- Suits beginners, non-experimentors, Training Organizations,
etc.
- Available as CD's and DVD Each type complete (as some don't
have dvd drives)
- Has at least one selfbooting standalone "trial" CD in pack
- does have stickers, keytag, etc
- Doesn't have experimental, beta, alpha, etc. packages
- Has a DECENT staffed 24hr online and worldwide phone help
system with first five problems
(initial call to confirmed fixed) included (not calls as
may require more than one to fix)
Might add something like: It is up to the company that owns the 'SuSE'
label (currently Novell) to change the above to their will, while we
expect them to respect (or more?) the Opensuse community.
Opensuse - from the opensuse system plus others
Might like to call this the OpenSuSE community.
- DOESN'T have any commercial packages (I don't include
Apache, etc as commercial)
Better state something like it might contain not-so-open software, the
main target should be something like:
- free to distribute with the distro and its deriviates.
- free to use on a relative wide scale (personal, test, development,
non-commercial redistribution) up to (but excluding ;-) resell.
- non-free packages are only included if they are in NovellSuSE so
buying that will solve the license.
- Does have experimental, beta and "Safe to run" alpha (with a
readme stating kernal and
other program requirement versions required to run)
- does have multiple new kernals
- does have a tool for patching, etc (yes I know this will be
a giant project, but is a missing
item)
- Available for mailorder sale, bi-monthly sets with complete
updates, as CD's and DVD's.
- Available free as downloadable iso's AND packages (as some
of us are still working
56k max)
I'd like to read here: a yast install and update point to install
packages or the entire system from, other installation bases (apt, yum,
...) can/might/will be available.
- free help from web only
does anyone have any additional sugestions, comments, or am I shooting
blanks down here
Regards
CBee
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