moving from Sco to Linux

[Bill Campbell]

On Fri, Jul 23, 2004, Kenneth Brody wrote:
>Bill Campbell wrote:
>> 
>> On Fri, Jul 23, 2004, Kenneth Brody wrote:
>> >"Jay R. Ashworth" wrote:
>> >[...]
>> >> > If you have to move to Linux for whatever reason...  I think the scuttle I'm
>> >> > hearing is go to SuSE.
>> >>
>> >> I will concur here.  9.0.
>> >[...]
>> >
>> >I downloaded (but haven't installed yet) SuSe Personal the other day.
>> 
>> I would stay away from SuSE Personal unless you're just using it for
>> workstations where you don't want to do any development.  The personal
>> versions are missing many of the tools that I use frequently.  We install
>> SuSE Professional on all systems that are going to be used for more than a
>> personal workstation.
>
>Well, for now at least, it's just personal use.  We just got rid of our
>old Linux box (Pentium 133, 16MB RAM, RedHat 6.0) and we're setting up a
>new box, so I decided to look at SuSe.
>
>I assume that Professional is not available as a free download?

I wouldn't know as I make it a point to buy the commercial distributions at
local retaillers to (a) support SuSE, and (b) so that the local vendors
have incentive to stock Linux.

Bill
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