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Re: Local SuSE mirror
- To: Tzafrir Cohen <tzafrir(at-nospam)technion.ac.il>
- Subject: Re: Local SuSE mirror
- From: Schlomo Schapiro <schapiro(at-nospam)mobileye.com>
- Date: Mon, 3 Dec 2001 14:23:45 +0200 (IST)
- Cc: Linux-Il Mailing List <linux-il(at-nospam)cs.huji.ac.il>
- In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.33L2.0112031010530.6325-100000@canada1.technion.ac.il>
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Hi,
PF1/REL imported them last time I checked (by phone). I saw it also once
in a shop in JM (an old version, of course).
And, they actually do have an excellend Evaluation CD (nobody else has
s.th. like this !): It boots a live filesystem from CD with all bells and
whistles installed. Including proper setup and it saves all the data +
your home dir on the local disk (vfat partition needed).
I think this is a very good solution for the evaluation problem and people
who want to suck from this a normal installation can just boot it and copy
it over to their hard disk (and do normal RPM installs afterwards).
Schlomo
PS: Download it from ftp://schapiro.org
On Mon, 3 Dec 2001, Tzafrir Cohen wrote:
> On Mon, 3 Dec 2001, Schlomo Schapiro wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > I also tried to talk to them (and I speak German !) to no avail. I told
> > them that their local importers are doing them a dis-service. But they
> > told me that they have long-running contracts and that's it.
>
> Who is their local importer?
>
> Last time I looked at their site, there was a link to an Israeli reseller.
> The site of the Israeli reseller had no mention of SuSE (only of
> Mandrake, if you bothered digging deep enough into the site).
>
> Do you see any SuSE in any store? Do you see any Redhat or Mandrake?
>
> >
> > I don't think that the problem is political, though. I see two major
> > problems:
> > 1) Israel is very RedHat centric (we are soooo American !), therefore
> > there are not so many (almost NIL) people who would buy SuSE
>
> SuSE sells pretty well in the US. Mandrake (originally french) is also
> doing well. Maybe some people here have problems with German products (no
> flames please, I'm only stating a fact), however I don't think that this
> is reflected in the sales of FolksWagen.
>
> > 2) SuSE doesn't bother to have importers in many countries. They are just
> > open for importers to make business with them. I imagine that the
> > Situation in Cyprus or Poland is not much better than here. It's just our
> > bad luck that we got an "Israeli" SuSE importer.
>
> Hmm...
>
> >
> > Also, note that $130 seems pretty close to the SuSE price if you would
> > order from them directly (from Germany).
> >
> > I once ordered a package directly from them for my work and it
> > was all very well, except the 60 DM shipping cost.
>
> 130$?
>
> If they don't start handing out evaluation CDs, (almost) no-one in Israel
> will bother with that.
>
>
--
Schlomo Schapiro
Senior System Administrator
MobilEye Vision Technologies Ltd.
24 Mishol Hadkalim St., Jerusalem, Israel
Telephone: + 972-2-586-6989 Ext. 131
Mobile: + 972-55-767898
Fax: + 972-2-586-7720
email: schapiro@mobileye.com
WWW: http://www.mobileye.com
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