Re: gEDA-user: which linux?

[Stephen Meier <smeier@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I build geda and pcb from source code.

My office workstation is running SUSE 9.3 which works fine.
My laptop is also running SUSE 9.3 which works fine
My home computer is running some version of RH9 (time to upgrade) though 
since it is using gnome 2.0 (I think) I am still using an older version 
of pcb on it. Ok  Ok not quite true.. There is an older version of PCB 
residing on it but it isn't being used from home. The main reason for me 
to upgrade.

As a disclaimer: I switched from redhat to suse when redhat dropped 
support for rh9. While I acknowledge rh had every right to drop support 
to a product, I was upset that rh would not easily make prorated refunds 
for support subscriptions. RH had offered what I considered to be an 
unacceptable upgrade to their workstation corporate version. Since I was 
using rh9 for servers the workstation addition did not provide the 
support I felt I had paid for. I had to conduct a very public campeign 
where I contended (and still do) that this constituted a violation of 
the US fair trade practice laws. You are not allowed to sell one product 
and then upsell to another product to provide the user with the level of 
service you originally promissed.

A further note, I did install fedora on my laptop after the above events 
due to driver supprt issues and fedora worked wonderfully. I only 
switched the laptop to suse after the laptop's hard drive died.

Please don't use my distaste for the rh marketing department of ~3 years 
ago as a reason not to use rh today. rh employs a number of very 
talented developers from whom we all benefit from having them work on 
linux and related projects.

Steve M.