>Hi Jerry, I've worked with SuSE 7.0 and SuSE 7.3 (in fact I installed the last one in my notebook). I think SuSE is a greate place to live with. I don't have the ACELERA-8 version because here in Venezuela the product have not arrive yet.
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>In the work they have a print server with Mandrake 7 (I thought) and they have another with a RH (I don't know what). Really the Mandrake 7 is very easy to use if we compare that with the RH distro. I think we all could support those greats distros too.
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>I can burn the CD's but honestly I think we can help those folks to continue in their great work (SuSE and Mandrake) by buying their entire packages. Here in Venezuela, for a reference, SuSE with all their packages cost something like 90 US$, the M$ option:
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>(1) Windows XP Pro: 120 US$
>(2) Office XP Pro: 400 US$
>(3) VFP 7.0: almost 400 US$
>(4) SQL server: better don't tell
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>In a country where the average salary is 350 US$, you could imaging for the personal finance (and pocket) and the quality of the products the choice is obvius.
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>Regards.
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>Melvin

With SuSE or Mandrake + KDevelop + Qt 3 + Qt Designer + PostgreSQL + Open Office 1.0 the way is now open to use Open Source software that is as powerful as their commercial cousins, as easy to use, and has a better TCO. Being more stable and secure is an added bonus!

If I returned to private consulting I could compete with this combo. The only thing I'd charge for was my time. The client would get all their workstations and servers setup and dev tools installed for time alone. They would OWN their data and their data format. Freedom for everyone! Love it!