To the original parent, Best Buy may offer this in-store. I know CompUSA does, as I see it there frequently. To Jay: Unless you've been on a different planet lately, the average Linux user has been told by Red Hat to either buy their enterprise products or screw off. As for their hardware support, RHL did offer very good support but with them ditching the "average user" for corporate users, that hardware support will likely stall because most enterprises offer cookie-cutter, vendor-supplied PC's. While I would agree that Red Hat Linux WAS a good offering, we've been told not to expect future products like RHL9.0. Fedora will be offering "similar" offerings from now on, but will be much more experimental than Red Hat's polished distro's of days gone buy. Hense, people are looking at SuSE and the like to fill a void left by Red Hat. Granted, this may not have been the forum for the original post. <<JAV>> ---------- Original Message ----------- From: Jay Daniels <jay@xxxxxxxxxxx> To: shrike-list@xxxxxxxxxx Sent: Thu, 27 Nov 2003 12:59:47 -0500 Subject: Re: BestBuy SUSE MixUp? > On Wed, Nov 26, 2003 at 07:06:17PM -0500, Colburn wrote: > > Was just looking for a local retail source for SUSE 9.0 > > > > The folks at BestBuy have a link to Operating Systems and when one > > chooses Windows Alternatives one gets this: > > http://www.bestbuy.com/site/olspage.jsp?id=cat16089&type=category&cmp= > > > > Very strange that they show SUSE 9 but list only RedHat and that as sold > > out. > > > > One would presume that SUSE is paying for the feature ad of their > > product, wonder if they know that BestBuy doesn't offer it for sale? > > > > 73, doc kd4e > ---end quoted text--- > > I installed SUSE 8.2 on my dual xeon box, but Sax2 would not run and > I could not setup my hardware. > > Furthermore, according to the SUSE site they do not support multiple > processors although the smp kernel is included. > > No problem installing Shrike on this box, it detected my hardware > and in my opinion has much better hardware support than SUSE. > > SUSE is a waste of money, and they do not provide iso images! They > want you to buy the unfinished broken product. > > Even with RedHat's back-porting, it's still the best alternative out > there. I don't want to spend weeks or months working on the OS! > > SUSE 9.0 may be different, but I was ripped off one time and that's > enough for me. > > On the other hand, the SUSE console interface "looked" good and > RedHat has also produced a lot of broken releases in the past. This > should be stopped because the typical Linux user will not put up > with it. > > Out of the RH releases I actually purchased, 4.2 seemed ahead of it's > time, 5.0 was a disaster, and 9.0 is ok but not what I expected. X > is still a clumsy slow interface compared to OSX or XP and Linux > (even with true type fonts) the fonts look screwed -- just take a > look at the screen shots in the Linux Journal if you don't belive me. > > I expect more from Commercial Linux distributors. > > jay > > -- > Shrike-list mailing list > Shrike-list@xxxxxxxxxx > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/shrike-list ------- End of Original Message ------- -- Shrike-list mailing list Shrike-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/shrike-list
