Re: A Red Hat user's introduction to Debian

2002-05-02 Thread Michèl Alexandre Salim
--- Michael Schwendt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 2002-05-02, Kevin Waterson wrote: > stuff working. Nothing for Linux newbies. The text > mode installer > asks many specific questions about graphics adapter > and monitor > capabilities, that reminded me of old Slackware. ?!? There is no auto-

Re: International pricing discrepancy

2002-05-02 Thread Michèl Alexandre Salim
--- "Keith W. Sheffield" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Does that already include VAT? > > When I was in Ireland a couple years ago, I liked > the fact that it was > already included in the price, unlike the sales > taxes in the US. In a > nutshell, how is it different than US sales taxes? AFAIK

Re: International pricing discrepancy

2002-05-01 Thread Michèl Alexandre Salim
--- Paul Dorneanu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > That's NOT the only price discrepancy. Let's look at > macromedia products > or adobe. In Europe (and Romania) they are more > than double Really? Bizarre indeed. Have not bought those products themselves - people at primary school probably sti

Re: next release

2002-05-01 Thread Michèl Alexandre Salim
--- Paul Dorneanu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I am wondering what Redhat is doing with the alpha > release. The last > release for an alpha is the 7.1. Would be great to > see a release in the > coming future for the alpha platform, after the > release of 7.3. I am I once was looking forward

Re: next release

2002-05-01 Thread Michèl Alexandre Salim
--- Tony Nugent <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > But my real reason for joining into this > conversation is to give > some recognition to redhat 6.2 -- arguably their > best release so > far, especially as a reliable server platform. > Ah yes :) That was the one with GNOME 1.2 and the first Red Hat

Dialect discourse (Re: Pricing discrepancy (Re: next release) )

2002-05-01 Thread Michèl Alexandre Salim
--- Riku Meskanen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > There is not really one UK English. You should once > visit UK > to find this out and be amazed how hard it's first > to understand > people from such a small geographical area. Picking > up the ozzie > or other dialects from noth america are lot eas

Re: Pricing discrepancy (Re: next release)

2002-05-01 Thread Michèl Alexandre Salim
--- Bill Crawford <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > OK, it wasn't that funny, but I found a copy: > > http://www.bazza.com/sj/humour/Windiz98.html > > or > > http://www.billemon.org.uk/Fun/Windiz98.html Funny enough for you to archive it at least :) It's not PC, and I'd probably not show

Re: next release

2002-04-30 Thread Michèl Alexandre Salim
--- Paul Dorneanu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > you mean that there were no buggy releases of > redhat? Of course there is no such thing :) I recall that anecdote: "It is a truism that in any piece of software the following two observations are true: 1. You can always shorten the code by one lin

RE: International pricing discrepancy

2002-04-30 Thread Michèl Alexandre Salim
--- Trevor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Yes, but you've got Big Ben. That's like saying you've got the Washington Monument when you live in Arkansas - I need to travel 3 hours to see the Big Ben :p > RedHat is based in the US. That is their home turf > (they must choose their > battles careful

RE: Pricing discrepancy (Re: next release)

2002-04-30 Thread Michèl Alexandre Salim
--- Trevor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Who knows... maybe it's because RH is trying to > reach greater market > penetration in the US then in Europe. One would think they'll try to win over the European market from SuSE. Right now SuSE wins on price and especially on price/CD (8 CDs + DVD fo

Re: Pricing discrepancy (Re: next release)

2002-04-30 Thread Michèl Alexandre Salim
--- John Summerfield <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > > There's no excuse about translating the manual as > here in UK the > > manuals are all in English ! > > English? Or American? Good point :p. Cost breakdown would be: ... $40 - piping draft text through aspell ...

International pricing discrepancy

2002-04-30 Thread Michèl Alexandre Salim
Hello, Red Hat boxed sets tend to be priced much higher than the equivalent pricing in United States. For instance, Red Hat Linux: USA - $59.95, Europe - 112 euro (112x0.90 = $100, or 67% higher) Red Hat Linux professional: USA - about 120 dollars? Europe - 230 euro Americans earn 50% higher t

Re: Pricing discrepancy (Re: next release)

2002-04-30 Thread Michèl Alexandre Salim
--- John Summerfield <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The $229 at > http://www.everythinglinux.com.au/cat/distributions/redhat?elinux=fbb > 5971bd8446edb6fc692b26145b24e is definitely beyond > MY budget. > That's *really* cheap. In Europe it's more like 230 Euro, which is probably at least 70% highe

Re: Pricing discrepancy (Re: next release)

2002-04-30 Thread Michèl Alexandre Salim
--- Chris Tooley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Michel Alexandre Salim wrote: > > Is there any significantly more expensive factor > behind the way Red Hat > > prices its products overseas? I paid about 60 > pounds - 90 US dollars - > > for Red Hat professional 7.2. No, it's not the > version that