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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 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 released?
> > I can't wait to lay my greasy little hands on it.

Only my own speculation: SuSE and RH want to include crypto stuff with
their distributions. There is a patent in (only) USA, expiring later in
this month. Both of the distributions, delay the official announcements
till the X date. However, SuSE already started to distribute their
package, but only in Europe and with no download options, because the
patent doesn't cover Europe.

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?

I don't want to start a flamewar; I just don't know the advantages of
each of them, and really curious to know how do they compare to each
other.

P.S.  While I should not be a prophet to guess that RH7 will be released
in this month, I don't have any guess regarding Caldera. Does anybody
hear any rumor ???

-- 
Eli Marmor

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