A2L1:
I was in that Dunedin meeting and I am a SuSE user. As a matter of
fact, I was one of the persons who talked in favor of SuSE about it's
easy to use distro.
I am curious about the description you just mentioned about the manuals
included with 8.2 and I would like to take a look to them.
Would you bring them to a future meeting? Are you going to attend to N.P
On Tue, 2003-04-29 at 19:47, A2L1 wrote:
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> At the last Dunedin meeting, and the one before, the topic of which distro
> would one recommend came up. This is an open ended question and mostly
> depends on each persons needs and likes,but for those who deem support,or
> help, most important I would recommend SuSE.
> To set things let me refresh. In a meeting about 7-8 months ago I was relating
> my experience with SuSE 8.1 Pro and stated that I was having a problem and
> SuSE wasn't much help in resolving it. Seems that my puter would lock
> up(remember this) like a virgin at a biker bar, I mean nada, nothing,it would
> flat out freeze up and nothing but a push the power button to off would do
> anything. Well there was quite a few email back and forth with SuSE and altho
> they were answering the email there was nothing that could be done to get the
> box working properly. Finally I just emailed them and said that I was
> switching to something that would work( ended up being Debian). After that
> email I received a reply from Marissa Krupa at SuSE and she was very nice and
> stated that even though is seemed that SuSE could not resolve the problem,
> (and partly that was my fault because every time it froze up I tried a
> re-install with diff perameters there were no logs to send) she was willing
> to send me the next release gratis to see if that would work as a repayment
> for having paid for SuSE 8.1 Pro that I couldn't use and gave away at a
> meeting.
> Well SuSe 8.2 arrived by Fed-Ex overnight the Pro version, true to her word. I
> installed SuSE 8.2 and used a selective install from the menu, all is well.
> 8.2 has been up and running for like 3 days solid and not even a burp. It was
> a smooth install and no probs at all. The new release even has the sticker,
> they were missing for awhile, not a sheet of them but one single sticker. But
> this is just background, the reason for all this is simply to say that 8.2
> comes with 2 very good manuals(fat and full), 5 cds and 2 dvds so you really
> get your moneys worth. Mostly with SuSE you get SuSE and the support. I mean
> if they cant fix it they replace it, in these times thats saying alot.
> The SuSe distro does seem to offer something that the others don't seem to be
> willing to give without cost and that is support, they even list phone
> numbers. You can actually talk to someone and it doesn't cost you --- I mean
> there are limitations to this but still when you get a set of very good
> manuals and a for real support I cant see why one would select a distro other
> than SuSe, especially as a newbie or one who is still in the beginning stages
> of Linux.
> With very complete manuals(almost worth the price of the distro) and a good
> support system I cant see recommending any other distro. I don't mean for
> this to seem like a commercial or like Im peddling distros on the side but I
> am totally amazed at the support and the fact that SuSe would stand behind
> their product in such a manner in these times, they get my money as future
> releases come out.
> Not my 2 cents worth this was at least a dime and for those not interested Im
> sorry I used your time, to those still looking for a distro something to
> ponder,
>
> A J
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