On Wed, 1 Oct 2003, rogerwphx wrote: > I'm just a user following the thread. I did some checking - playing what > if. The cheapest Suse distribution is $99.00, but won't install without > a maintenance pack for $499.00. Where in the world did you come up with this??? You can buy SuSE workstation or professional for a few $$$ more and just install it. You don't need to buy a $499 maintenance pack. In fact, if you really feel like it you can do an ftp install directly from their site OR you can download the entire tree to a server and do ftp or nfs installs from it. Those are for free but there is obviously no support. Application security/bug patches are available though. If I remember correctly SuSE uses yast to apply those automatically...just like up2date. SuSE does not provide ISO disk images and never has. Also, the tree is not available until a month or two after the version first ships. I suppose it their way of encouraging folks to buy the newest hot off the press release. -- Gerry "The lyfe so short, the craft so long to learne" Chaucer -- Shrike-list mailing list Shrike-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/shrike-list
