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Re: SuSE 7.3 (Re: [RE: [RE: [[PLUG] Fonts?]]])
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Jeff Abrahamson wrote:
>
> On Fri, Nov 02, 2001 at 08:07:19AM -0500, Nicholas Vettese wrote:
> > Yeah, but Red Hat just changed their pricing. The old Standard Package,
> > which was 30 dollars, is now 60. The version has less than the old
> > Workstation version for the same price. Then you move right up to the
> > Workstation/Server version for 200 dollars. No more middle of the road
> > version to make it seem worthwhile to buy. Now I am trying to see which
> > distro I would like to switch to.
>
> Distro questions quickly get into religion and rehash, but I'll still
> take the bate:
>
> I recently switched to Debian, and I've been really happy. Debian
> sucks a bit on device recognition--you often have to just know that
> your ethernet card needs, say, a 3c59z driver or whatever it
> needs. But other than that, the freeness is excellent. And when I want
> something new, being able to apt-get it and be done with it is truly
> liberating after years of Redhat and Mandrake and searching for rpm's
> and their dependencies.
>
Might as well plug SuSE here as well... If you want to go free, and
have good network connectivity, you can download the SuSE boot/install
disk set, then point it at their ftp site and install the distro. I
don't know how long this will take, as I've only used it to update
selected packages. Also, while they are shipping 7.3, the ftp site is
usually behind by a little, so I think they only have 7.2 or 7.1 up
there at the moment.
--
Kevin Brosius
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