RE: SuSE 7.0

2000-09-04 Thread Miki Shapiro
ro Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: SuSE 7.0 MS>> Some people may say Im wrong on this, but RH is getting awfully MS>> M$ftish. The dumb-user-approach saying "you don't really need to That's true. You don't _need_ to know. Information hiding is good, look at your so

RE: SuSE 7.0

2000-09-04 Thread Stanislav Malyshev a.k.a Frodo
MS>> Some people may say Im wrong on this, but RH is getting awfully MS>> M$ftish. The dumb-user-approach saying "you don't really need to That's true. You don't _need_ to know. Information hiding is good, look at your software design guides. You still _can_ know, if you care. But average user is

RE: SuSE 7.0

2000-09-03 Thread Miki Shapiro
to:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Eli Marmor Sent: Sun, September 03, 2000 2:46 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: SuSE 7.0 Oren Held wrote: > It's out in Europe , soon in USA, > but the question is when will it be released for download.. > (Unless you wanna buy it..) > > On S

Re: SuSE 7.0

2000-09-03 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Sun, 3 Sep 2000, Oren Held wrote: > The difference between RH & SuSE is not huge, but I still like SuSE, > especially because of the nice setup program('yast'). It's not just an > administrating program, but also lets you install/remove/update .rpm > packages in a very nice way. And 'sax' is a

Re: SuSE 7.0

2000-09-03 Thread Geoffrey S. Mendelson
Oren Held wrote: > The difference between RH & SuSE is not huge, but I still like SuSE, > especially because of the nice setup program ('yast'). It's not just an > administrating program, but also lets you install/remove/update .rpm > packages in a very nice way. And 'sax' is also a very nice X

Re: SuSE 7.0

2000-09-03 Thread Oren Held
Hello Eli! > But then comes a bigger question: If both have major upgrades (7.0), > with all of the latest and greatest stuff, then is there still a reason > to prefer SuSE over RH? Well, I prefer SuSE on RedHat. I don't think that most people choose their distro because it's newer, but because

Re: SuSE 7.0

2000-09-03 Thread Eli Marmor
Oren Held wrote: > It's out in Europe , soon in USA, > but the question is when will it be released for download.. > (Unless you wanna buy it..) > > On Sun, 3 Sep 2000, Miki Shapiro wrote: > > > Anyone know when (other than "In september" which is what the website says) > > SuSE 7.0 is schedule

RE: SuSE 7.0

2000-09-03 Thread Miki Shapiro
i Shapiro Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: SuSE 7.0 Miki Shapiro wrote: > > Anyone know when (other than "In september" which is what the website says) > SuSE 7.0 is scheduled to be released? > I can't wait to lay my greasy little hands on it. > > Miki Shapiro

Re: SuSE 7.0

2000-09-03 Thread Daniel Feiglin
Miki Shapiro wrote: > > Anyone know when (other than "In september" which is what the website says) > SuSE 7.0 is scheduled to be released? > I can't wait to lay my greasy little hands on it. > > Miki Shapiro > Aladdin Knowledge Systems > > Sex. Unix. Snowboarx. > > ===

Re: SuSE 7.0

2000-09-03 Thread Oren Held
Hello Miki! It's out in Europe , soon in USA, but the question is when will it be released for download.. (Unless you wanna buy it..) Cya, Oren On Sun, 3 Sep 2000, Miki Shapiro wrote: > Anyone know when (other than "In september" which is what the website says) > SuSE 7.0 is scheduled to be re

Re: SuSE 7.0

2000-08-31 Thread Alex Shnitman
Hi, Oren! On Thu, Aug 31, 2000 at 12:39:30PM +0300, you wrote the following: > I think it's a real 'hutzpa' that SuSE started selling version 7.0 > already, > but still doesn't let people download. > 99% of the programs there were made by volunteers (GPL and all this), > and they cost money for

Re: SuSE 7.0

2000-08-31 Thread Gavrie Philipson
Oren Held wrote: > > Hello All > > I think it's a real 'hutzpa' that SuSE started selling version 7.0 > already, > but still doesn't let people download. > 99% of the programs there were made by volunteers (GPL and all this), > and they cost money for it, and don't let people get it. Just to ad

Re: SuSE 7.0

2000-08-31 Thread Gilad Ben-Yossef
Shachar Shemesh wrote: > > Actually, if you read the GPL, you will find it is perfectly legal for > them to sell this product and not offer anyone the option to download for > free. All the GPL requires them to do is to make the sources available to > anyone who has legally obtained the binaries

Re: SuSE 7.0

2000-08-31 Thread Hetz Ben Hamo
They will offer it for free - next month probably (as an "evaluation" version) Hetz Shachar Shemesh wrote: > > Actually, if you read the GPL, you will find it is perfectly legal for > them to sell this product and not offer anyone the option to download for > free. All the GPL requires them to

Re: SuSE 7.0

2000-08-31 Thread Shachar Shemesh
Actually, if you read the GPL, you will find it is perfectly legal for them to sell this product and not offer anyone the option to download for free. All the GPL requires them to do is to make the sources available to anyone who has legally obtained the binaries from them. Assuming that all the