On Thursday 06 November 2003 11:11 pm, Bob Tanner wrote: > On Tuesday 04 November 2003 02:20 pm, nate at refried.org wrote: > > It gets more interesting now that Novell is in the process of buying > > SuSE. Novell still has a lot of money and it doesn't appear that they > > are bleeding cash. Will IBM continue paying for SuSE's development > > costs? Can Novell make SuSE profitable in their own right? > > Almost makes we want to try SuSE :-) > > I'm interested in seeing if they come out with a desktop-oriented linux. Um... they did its called SuSE 8.2 (scurries to a web browser...which has recently been superceded by SuSE 9.0) With 8.2 they made the move to make the Personnel($40 Blue box) and Professional($80 Green box) box sets gear more towards home users. I don't know about you but that suggests a desktop distribution. The difference in price is the types of packages that come on the CD/DVD set. For business desktops they have the SuSE Linux Desktop. The business oriented product will change on a slower lifecycle than the home product. (Approx. 1 version per year instead of 2) They also have version under the Home User category on their site called the SuSE Office Desktop. I think its the Pro version with Crossover Office, but I'm not sure. I don't know if 9.0 is on the shelves but there is always the live eval CD-ROM if you just want to try it. You never know you might find you like it. ;-) <soapbox> I tend to by a new box set every other release. I could download the upgrade but choose not to. My reason is simple, I want to keep SuSE available in my local retail establishment , be it CompUSA, Best Buy, or MicroCenter. I figure the best way to do this is to vote with my hard earned cash. It may not keep the product on the shelf, but I have to think it helps. </soapbox> -- Jack Ungerleider - local SuSE bigot jack at jacku.com _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list