<div>I liked getting it from the store. Now I have to download it.</div> <div> </div> <div>Thanks <BR><BR><B><I>"Dr. Robert J. Meier" <eaglecoach@wwnet.com></I></B> wrote:</div> <BLOCKQUOTE class=replbq style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #1010ff 2px solid">David,<BR><BR>> Is OpenSuse just a name change ?<BR><BR>At this time, they differ only by the "Microsoft tax", but IMHO<BR>content divergence will become significant in less than a year.<BR><BR>When SuSE was a German company targetting small businesses, it published<BR>two lines of distro, SuSE and SuSE Pro. SuSE was unencumbered, and came<BR>on CDs and DVDs with hardcopy manuals, convenient for the administration<BR>of several differently configured computers, as found at most small<BR>businesses. SuSE Pro included SuSE and several proprietary packages,<BR>bundled at a discount. (I found the Opera and Communicator seat<BR>enough to justify the additional
cost.)<BR><BR><OVERSIMPLIFIED>When Novell bought SuSE, they tried to eliminate the<BR>online support database, eliminate the unencumbered line,<BR>use downloadable source from a throttled server to<BR>satisfy GPL requirements, and get free tech support by giving OpenSuSE<BR>to the community.<OVERSIMPLIFIED><BR><BR>This backfired and they reconnected (but do not support) the online database,<BR>eliminated the encumbered line, are threatened by GPL warranty issues,<BR>and the community has been wary.<BR><BR>With the recent announcement that Novell will pay the "Microsoft tax",<BR>many OpenSuSE supporters have moved to ubuntu, gentoo, and mepis.<BR><BR>> Are there [any] issues upgrading from Suse 10.1 to OpenSuse 10.2?<BR><BR>None that I am aware of.<BR><BR>-- <BR>Dr. B<BR><BR>"To translate it into UNIX system administration terms (Randy's<BR>fundamental metaphor for just about everything), the post-modern,<BR>politically correct atheists were like people who had suddenly
found<BR>themselves in charge of a big and unfathomably complex computer system<BR>(viz. society) with no documentation or instruction of any kind, and so<BR>whose only way to keep the thing running was to invent and enforce<BR>certain rules with a kind of neo-Puritanic rigor, because they were at<BR>a loss to deal with any deviations from what they saw as the norm.<BR>Whereas people who were wired into a church were like UNIX system<BR>administrators who, while they might not understand everything, at least<BR>had some documentation, som FAQs and How-tos and README files, providing<BR>some guidance on what to do when things got out of whack. They were, in<BR>other words, capable of displaying adaptability."<BR>-- Neal Stephenson, Cryptonomicon, p.585<BR>_______________________________________________<BR>mdlug mailing list<BR>mdlug@mdlug.org<BR>http://mdlug.org/mailman/listinfo/mdlug<BR></BLOCKQUOTE><BR><p> 
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