HCSuperStores Posted January 15, 2005 Posted January 15, 2005 I just read in the Inquirer that Suse 9.2 is free for the downloading. A DVD ISO is available for download at their site at this location. For those wondering what I'm talking about .... Suse is a stable and respected distribution of Linux. For those who haven't tried Linux, this may be a great opporunity to give it a whirl! Enjoy! Quote
TCH-Thomas Posted January 15, 2005 Posted January 15, 2005 Nice finding, HCSuperStores I´ll just move this to the software section. Quote
thehemi Posted February 9, 2005 Posted February 9, 2005 Novell's SUSE website does not appear to like my Opera. My downloaded data just keeps climbing and climbing and no site is shown. Comes up pretty quick in Firefox. Weird. Quote
MikeJ Posted February 9, 2005 Posted February 9, 2005 (edited) This might be a better link to use. Full list of mirrors so you can find a location close to you. Just go to the same directory: i386/9.2/iso/ Edit: Or better yet, just go here for direct links. Novell's site still lists this version as an Eval. What that exactly means functionally I don't know as I haven't used SuSE since before it was owned by Novell. Edited February 9, 2005 by TCH-MikeJ Quote
borfast Posted February 10, 2005 Posted February 10, 2005 Another good place to look is DistroWatch.com. Quote
TCH-Rick Posted February 13, 2005 Posted February 13, 2005 I downloaded the SuSe 9.2 DVD iso from one of the mirrors and installed it on my laptop. It installed with no problem and runs great. The only problem I ran into was getting my wireless network card to work. After a little trial and error I was able to get it working as well. Quote
thehemi Posted February 18, 2005 Posted February 18, 2005 The sites keep mentioned its an eval version. Is it limited in any way? Online updates work? Quote
TCH-Rick Posted February 18, 2005 Posted February 18, 2005 Everything seems to work fine. I have run the online updates to get new packages. I've used it almost exclusively since getting the wireless card to run. I still can't get past one of the Bonus levels on Super Tux. Quote
lcbrevard Posted February 24, 2005 Posted February 24, 2005 The sites keep mentioned its an eval version.Is it limited in any way? Online updates work? <{POST_SNAPBACK}> I was a user already of SUSE 9.0 Pro (installed from a retail purchased copy a year ago). For my job I needed to evaluate 9.2 so I downloaded and installed from the FTP-ISO after burning a DVD from it. Note that this is about 3.6 GB. To my dismay I found that a lot of packages are missing from this version - some important ones for me were Emacs, slocate, and apache. Online updates with YoU worked but after trying in vain to easily add packages that were not on the DVD, I gave up and bought the retail 9.2 Pro. Its DVD is dual-layer and over 7 GB. I have not found any download of this larger DVD that matches the retail release. Quote
HCSuperStores Posted February 24, 2005 Author Posted February 24, 2005 No Apache? That's really dissapointing. Quote
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