>> unless one thinks about it, $50 doesn't sound bad; but, after 5 years or
so you're up to MS levels of money
Well, that math depends on how many upgrade MS puts you through. MS gets
all the money up front. SUSE gets $50/year (as I understand it) and if I
move to another OS, it only cost me $50.
Now if SUSE upgrades the OS every year, that's $250 for 5 upgrades. That's
not really very expensive. MS and Apple both charge around $100 per
upgrade, so IF they upgraded once per year, you'd have $500 over five years
just for upgrades. Novell is being reasonable I think.
If you want 'free', try OpenSUSE (or Debian/Fedora/Ubantu/etc).
Ken Elliott
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From: slug@nks.net [mailto:slug@nks.net] On Behalf Of Donald E Haselwood
Sent: Wednesday, July 19, 2006 12:10 PM
To: slug@nks.net
Subject: Re: [SLUG] SLE 10 is now shipping.
> > > Pugh, Is there a way to have no support and not have to pay for
> > > the
> >
> > above.
> >
> > > I.e. can I d/l it without the $50?
> >
> > Simply download the eval. You will receive no updates past the eval
> > period, but that's it.
>
> Interesting business model for GPL s/w. Makes sense though. I was
> hoping they were charging for the support, not updates.
So, reading it over, it looks like one can download the SLED eval version,
load it, but after 60 days pay if updates are wanted (and unless one thinks
about it, $50 doesn't sound bad; but, after 5 years or so you're up to MS
levels of money).
I presume that 1) after 60 days one cannot download another eval copy, but I
wonder if the 1st downloaded copy will install on other machines after 60
days; might it require the activation code, which would fail unless the
clock on the machine was set back(?).
I've tried a network install of 10.1 several times. It hangs on
"Initializing catalog". Some posts on linuxforums.org indicated that this
appears to be a small memory problem--one post'er mentioned it required 1
hour to complete the initializing step (but he only had 600 MB ram (egads,
and we did great things with 4K of core on a PDP11...)). I allowed 3 hours
and it didn't finish, but maybe after a long time the ftp connection drops.
I'll download CDs and see if that works. But, it makes we wonder if the
SLED version requires a rock-crusher system.
Don
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