On 3/22/07, Ryan Simpkins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I'm thinking of trying out SuSE for a laptop I've got. I hear they charge you for updates though. Is that true? Can you guys please share your SuSE experiences (good/bad)?
I ran SuSE when I worked at Novell and really liked it. Its a great distribution with a lot of talented people working on it. My only complaint is that I didn't like the YCP scripting language that Yast is written in but that doesn't matter if you are not writing yast modules. I did have problems trying to find packages for SuSE. It seems like packages are more readily available for debian and or fedora.
I'm certainly not going to pay for updates to F/OSS software. The community built it, the community supports it, and the community wants it to be Free.
A large part of the community is working for the like of Novell and or Red Hat. Someone has to pay for the bandwidth and servers to deliver those update to you.
I'm happy to pay for support if I need it, but not updates. The CentOS project essentially repackages the RHEL updates/system, does SuSE have a similar option? If not, is there something stopping someone from doing so?
Open SuSE is an official Novell project for their free version (http://www.opensuse.org/). I am not sure if a free alternative to SLES exists. -- grant /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */
