__/ [ William Poaster ] on Saturday 04 March 2006 17:21 \__
> On Sat, 04 Mar 2006 13:58:23 +0000, Roy Schestowitz wrote:
>
> <snip>
>> I will remind you that when Novell sacked many employees a couple of
>> months ago, managers yelled that SuSE-affiliated staff was unaffected. I
>> believe that Novell keep an eye on their Windows-bound market, but rely
>> primarily on the prospects of Novell Linux, SLES, SuSE, and OpenSuSE,
>> which accumulate thrust like an avalanche. Be careful skiing. smile
>
> As a sort of footnote to that, Roy, it's reported from OpenSusE that in
> the first 6 months of SuSE 10.0 being released there were 750,000
> downloads (7,000 a day average). I would think that quite a few of the
> downloads, after being burnt to disks, would also be installed on more
> than one machine.. I have it on two machines ATM. ;-)
I have SuSE on two machines, but none of them runs version 10 and I never
ever downloaded SuSE (or /any/ Linux distribution for that matter). It's a
case of CD burning by the vendor or re-use in our Division where _finally_,
all machines are set up to become dual-boot.
I am even happy enough with 8.1, which I have used since 2003. it comes to
show that Linux as it were several years ago stands the test of time. I see
no reason to bump up, despite the painlessness of the upgrade (home
directories stay in tact)
> SuSE 10.1 OSS Beta6 (Agama Lizard)
^^^^^
*sarcasm* You courageous lad!
http://lists.opensuse.org/archive/opensuse-announce/2006-Feb/0007.html
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