WTB: SuSE Pro 9.3 boxed sets

James Knott james.knott-bJEeYj9oJeDQT0dZR+AlfA at public.gmane.org
Tue May 10 15:45:57 UTC 2005


Francois Ouellette wrote:
>>Enough to make me wonder if Novell is actually interested in selling
>>product!
>>They want to ship me a box with a manual I will never read and a bunch of
>>CDs
>>that will only be used once (in order to copy contents to NFS share).  I
>>might have to start talking my employer into Debian!
>>
>>--
>>Fraser Campbell <fraser-Txk5XLRqZ6CsTnJN9+BGXg at public.gmane.org>                 http://www.wehave.net/
>>Georgetown, Ontario, Canada                               Debian GNU/Linux
> 
> 
> Same feeling here, I wanted 9.2 and no one had stock, all waiting for
> Novell to send the boxes... I found that since Novell acquired SuSE things
> are not the same. Seems a lot like when they bought out Tuxedo years ago,
> and left the product sleeping for years before selling it to someone else.
> 
> So I switched to Fedora/Red Hat, maybe not the "best" package but they are
> very easy to get and support is generally good, with very active users
> groups.

Given that it was available weeks ago in other parts of the world, I 
wonder if perhaps the problem is not in the Canadian distibution system. 
  Canadians have often been slow to get what's available elsewhere. 
I've seen that happen, many times over the years.
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