Linux First Look @ SUSE 9.3 Professional

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SUSE 9.3 has the potential to be a serious contender on the desktop, but sadly I cannot recommend this release to anyone looking for a well-balanced desktop Linux system. While they score points for making use of the latest and greatest desktop environments, new peripheral technology, and usability enhancements, the way they've crippled the multimedia functionality of this one-time world class distro is hard to ignore. Most of the people buying this will realize that they can no longer listen to 99% of their music. Updates from YOU or not, this still equals a broken distro. Sure, in a perfect world, everyone would be using OGGs, but we don't live in a perfect world. This is a flaw that might seem trivial, but in fact it's a huge issue.
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Source: MadPenguin
 
Well, Redhat was already like this......
hope this is not a sogn of things to come..

I guess they have done it because no they can no longer collect the license fee. Earlier, since replication of SUSE systems was not allowed (no free downloads, due to presence of commercial packages), they could (in thery) collect a license fee, but if the plan to release it free over the net (like they did with 9.2 ultimately) then they can no longer do that.
 
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