Re: Older Hardware Still Works

From	rbowman <bowman@montana.com>
Newsgroups	comp.os.linux.misc
Subject	Re: Older Hardware Still Works
Date	2025-09-05 19:31 +0000
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On Fri, 5 Sep 2025 03:52:02 -0400, c186282 wrote:

>    LONG back I was buying branded SUSE. Good, great -
>    but the quasi-free thing didn't last.
> 
>    You can still buy RealSUSE ... your org MIGHT be more friendly
>    towards something PAID rather than what's sometimes branded as "junk
>    freeware".

S.u.S.E. went through a many iterations. Originally they didn't have their 
own distribution but were printing manuals and providing support. In the 
'80s and '90s you bought software in a box and it included manuals. 

I had a vague memory but I don't think I have the box but

https://archive.org/details/mandrake-7.2-power-pack

The $2 must be from a garage sale along the way. iirc it was $40. 
'Everything You Need!' was a selling point. 

We've went full circle from the original Slackware, download a bunch of 
files and write them to a couple of boxes of floppies, good luck, to 
download an iso, good luck. Documentation is out there someplace.

Some organizations might be comfortable paying $1000 or so a year for 24/7 
support.  That's relatively cheap. RHEL is a little more.

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Re: Older Hardware Still Works Peter 'Shaggy' Haywood <phaywood@alphalink.com.au> - 2025-09-04 15:34 +1000
  Re: Older Hardware Still Works rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2025-09-04 18:20 +0000
    Re: Older Hardware Still Works c186282 <c186282@nnada.net> - 2025-09-05 03:52 -0400
      Re: Older Hardware Still Works "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2025-09-05 12:46 +0200
        Re: Older Hardware Still Works c186282 <c186282@nnada.net> - 2025-09-05 07:08 -0400
        Re: Older Hardware Still Works rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2025-09-05 19:36 +0000
          Re: Older Hardware Still Works "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2025-09-05 21:52 +0200
            Re: Older Hardware Still Works rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2025-09-06 04:27 +0000
              Re: Older Hardware Still Works "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2025-09-06 14:25 +0200
                Re: Older Hardware Still Works rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2025-09-06 16:53 +0000
                Re: Older Hardware Still Works "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2025-09-07 00:03 +0200
                Re: Older Hardware Still Works c186282 <c186282@nnada.net> - 2025-09-07 01:49 -0400
          Re: Older Hardware Still Works Mike Scott <usenet.16@scottsonline.org.uk.invalid> - 2025-09-06 06:58 +0100
      Re: Older Hardware Still Works rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2025-09-05 19:31 +0000

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