> Hi
>
> On Fri, 23 Feb 2001, Shaul Karl wrote:
>
> > I am not familiarat all will SUSE and I do not know what is the time lag
> > between releasing a new version and putting the ISOs for free downloading. Yet
> > I am not sure that a reasonable time gap is not desirable. This is because it
> > let SUSE test their disk in a more wide scale testing environment.
> >
>
> This spesifically is not a valid argument IMO: I actually like the more
> "open" development of redhat and Mandrake, which release more often,
> release several betas, rush to market with an ISO image, and possibly
> publish a modified ISO image a couple of weeks later.
>
> Leave aside the legitimacy argument. Think about a developer trying to
> follow the develpment of that distro. For instance: I can relativly easily
> make a "hebrew-enabled" mandrake or redhat (or debian, of course). But I
> wouldn't even bother doing this with SuSE or Caldera.
>
Then SUSE does not have a site from which one can download up to date packages?
That + 2.5 months for releasing the ISOs makes me wonder whether they are not
wrong with their marketing strategy. I wonder what their rating among the
other distros is. How many SUSE users do we have?
I wonder what would Oren have to say about comparing distros couple of months
after (if) he will make his move.
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