[oclug] Anybody selling SuSE 8.1 Pro near Ottawa?

[Kevin McLauchlan]

On Wednesday 09 October 2002 21:20, Raymond Wood wrote:

> True enough.  Though I sometimes wonder if I should be concerned
> about the possibility that commercial offerings may obscure from
> newbies the fact that GNU/Linux itself is both fundamentally
> free as in freedom, and free as in beer.

Hey, so-o-o-ome day, I may set aside a machine and 
build linuxfromscratch on it, to stretch myself. 
But until that distant day, I'm happy to pay somebody 
to do a lot of work for me, so that I can actually 
get "stuff" done, and not spend my life with my 
head under the hood. (So to speak)

For somebody who just wants to work at his 
job or his recreation, I get plenty of Linux 
exposure from trying to fix the things: 
a) that just aren't ready for prime time
or
b) that I break.

Meanwhile, I purely do appreciate all the 
free-as-beer stuff. I'm trying to make 
OpenOffice.org my major tool at work 
(as well as spread it to the rest of the company).

Anyway, we all have our risk/adventure thresholds, 
and my notion of living dangerously with Linux 
is to load the latest commercially packaged 
distribution (with SuSE being my choice since 
5-point-something-or-other).

I guess I'll leave my order standing at Camelot. 
It's only a couple of weeks.  Maybe it'll build 
my character.  :-)

/kevin