openSUSE 11.0 Pre-order

[snakedriver]

Pre Order Germany, and Europe, Middle East & Africa links @ Buy openSUSE - openSUSE

Hope that saves someone some xfer fees

[init7]

Don't know if they support shipping to Indonesia, but I will give it a try when I have enough saving.

[valinuxguy]

Originally Posted by pikerhog

Everyone else out there.. if you haven't purchased a SuSE/openSUSE product in the past, or haven't (pre)-ordered the latest 11.0, I highly recommend doing so. Show your support, and get the software product that isn't only cool to run, but LOOKS cool in box/packaging and on your shelf too!

Unfortunately I think $60 is too much for a box set. If it were say $39.99 I probably would, but $60 (excluding shipping) is just too much in my opinion, so I won't be ordering it.

[oldcpu]

Originally Posted by valinuxguy

Unfortunately I think $60 is too much for a box set. If it were say $39.99 I probably would, but $60 (excluding shipping) is just too much in my opinion, so I won't be ordering it.

From my perspective, this is all about, how does one contribute to the openSource movement?

In terms of the functionality one gets from openSUSE, including the MANY applications included, I would gladly pay 4x the price you quote, and not think twice about it. IMHO 4x what you note is a bargain price, from a functional perspective. Consider what a functionally/approximately equivalent proprietary commercial OS such as MS-Windows costs? ....

But having expressed my view there, ... I also think one does not need to contribute in terms of paying $$ for a distribution. There is no need to pay anything. Contribution to a forum such as this, or maybe writing documentation/guides on the web, or developing, or packaging an application .... there are many ways to contribute, and every one's financial situation is different.

[l_tiger_hun]

Are stickers included? Stickers are important. I only have three original SUSE discs, 1 6.3 (or 6.2? I can't find the disc now) which came with a PC magazine, one 7.1 which was my first linux, it came with a book and a 7.1 LiveEval CeBIT-Edition Its time to get a new one (btw, on the back of the cebit case is an ad which says that the new SuSE Pro is 129DM and the Personal is 89DM. This was long ago)

PS.: Sorry for the off topic.

[Monex]

Originally Posted by oldcpu

From my perspective, this is all about, how does one contribute to the openSource movement?

In terms of the functionality one gets from openSUSE, including the MANY applications included, I would gladly pay 4x the price you quote, and not think twice about it. IMHO 4x what you note is a bargain price, from a functional perspective. Consider what a functionally/approximately equivalent proprietary commercial OS such as MS-Windows costs? ....

But having expressed my view there, ... I also think one does not need to contribute in terms of paying $$ for a distribution. There is no need to pay anything. Contribution to a forum such as this, or maybe writing documentation/guides on the web, or developing, or packaging an application .... there are many ways to contribute, and every one's financial situation is different.

I think 60€ is a fair price. It is not as expensive as the < 10.0 versions (about 90€ as far as i can remember) which was a bit too high in my eyes, when you keep in mind, that every half year a new release came out. With the current pricing you can decide whether to buy a console/pc game or opensuse then opensuse definitely wins the race (for me)

[GofBorg]

> Are stickers included? Stickers are important.
> PS.: Sorry for the off topic.

Hey I agree with you! Unfortunately the stickers stopped
awhile back. Personally I'd like to see case badges, window
stickers etc included. I bet they could sell a version with a
T-shirt included and make a little more money just like they
do with popular video games...but let's not forget the Novell
affiliation...they don't really understand marketing. SuSE did.

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[swerdna]

Originally Posted by vicofborg

The price in Canadian dollars is /higher/ than it is in USD, and their dollar is
worth more than ours. Something hinky goes on when it crosses that national border
thingy.


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That's fine. A merchant has a set number of US$ to receive from a thing. If the Canadian$ is worth less than the US$ then you must give more Canadian$ for the merchant to receive the correct number of US$. That's what "worth less than" means.

[einheit47]

I'd certainly buy a stuffed gecko to place on my monitor.

[swerdna]

Originally Posted by einheit47

I'd certainly buy a stuffed gecko to place on my monitor.

I got one for the formal lounge room. And got separated