You are seeing some really good prices that I wish I could find. At it is $176.99 for the full, and $89.99 for the upgrade.
At CompUSA it is $199.99 for the full version, and $99.99 for the Upgrade. Windows XP Home has the following prices. True for the OEM versions maybe, or versions preinstalled. If not a DVD player is like $30+ and comes with Windows software to play them.”
So Windows is cheaper than Linux, well this version anyways, and once purchased on a machine pre-loaded it has ALL the software installed for DVD, CD-burning since almost every pc, notebook comes with those drives. “Windows XP Home cost $85 and it is cheaper than SuSE Linux 9.1 and is $89+.
Could be I missed something though as I own both as well. Not a big deal, but it did not work for me right out of the install.
I own copies of both, and was quite surprised at Xandros DVD functionality out of the box, and SuSE 9.1’s lack of it.”įor my copy of Xandros I had to download the DVD functionality. And also at $89, I find Xandros to be affordable myself too. No need to purchase separate software to watch DVD’s with that distro. “I hate to break this to you but Xandros Desktop 2 ( a smaller company compared to the now Novell owned SuSE), to which the author directly compares SuSE 9.1, includes DVD playability right out of the box. The Enterprise I have worked in for over 15 years, we have to have multi-media on our workstations for company initiatives, new changes and viewing (internal online) updates from Corporate and other mandatory company wide changes. Until the Linux, community agrees to pay privileges like DVD software and other media formats the general user community (home) will not accept it and (work).
If a program is, crashing then it is still in beta stage or has numerous bugs in the code not allowing it to execute correctly. This is very unacceptable for SuSE to product this quality or lack there of quality in their software. In addition to the DVD troubles, Kaffeine, the default media player for videos and streaming web content, seems to be unstable in some circumstances freezing when I attempted to play an online Real Media stream and occasionally crashing on exit when tested on some machines’. ‘DVD playback is one of the major problems holding back the adoption of desktop Linux in the consumer market, and SUSE needs to address this issue for their next release. The article stated clearly that SuSE Linux 9.1 cannot play DVD’s and the playback was very jerky. If not a DVD player is like $30+ and comes with Windows software to play them. Windows XP Home cost $85 and it is cheaper than SuSE Linux 9.1 and is $89+.