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Novell Announces SUSE Linux 9.1

Posted by michael on from the debian-still-rules dept.

ravydavygravy writes "Novell today released details of the next incarnation of its linux products, Suse 9.1, based on the 2.6 kernel. It will come in both 32 and 64-bit versions, and includes a LiveCD version, to help people convince their Windows-loving friends to make the switch. It'll ship with Gnome 2.4.2 and KDE 3.2.1, as well as demo versions of the text processing application Textmaker and the spreadsheet application Planmaker (from Softmaker - but do we really need another office suite?). Samba 3 will also feature in the default setup."

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  1. Released today, not available til May... by bc90021 · · Score: 5, Informative

    "SUSE LINUX 9.1 will be available at http://store.suse.com and from bookstores and software suppliers on May 6. The recommended retail price of SUSE LINUX 9.1 Personal (two CDs, installation guide, 30 days of installation support) is $29.95. SUSE LINUX 9.1 Professional (five CDs, two double-sided DVDs, user guide and administration guide, 90 days of installation support) is $89.95. The update edition of SUSE LINUX 9.1 Professional is $59.95."

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  2. SuSE Community News by riggwelter · · Score: 5, Informative

    You can follow news leading up to the release, as well as blogs of members of the SuSE community as 9.1 approaches at Planet SuSE

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  3. I love SuSE by stateofmind · · Score: 5, Informative

    The other day I installed SuSE on my machine I'm building for my four year old. I bought the professional version of it for $80 at Best Buy, and was blown away. It was the easiet install of any OS period.

    The two manuals are beautiful. It comes with six cd's and a DVD with everything the six dics have. Talk about going out of your way for the customer.

    Josh

  4. Re:And the CDs... by Xpilot · · Score: 4, Informative

    Probably not, but you can always do a free FTP install.

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  5. Re:Friendly NTFS partitioning? by weekendgeek · · Score: 5, Informative

    SuSE 9.0 has a really nice NTFS resize utility during install. Works quite well.

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  6. Re:And the CDs... by akedia · · Score: 5, Informative

    I don't remember where I found this script, I think it posted on the SuSE mailing list a few years ago. Anyway, it's a bash program that allows you to create your own SuSE DVD iso from an FTP.

    I could never get it to work properly, and I'm not the original author, but I'll post it here anyway.

    SuSE deserves our money for the work they do, so please only use this for testing purposes, and plan on paying for the box set, as I did.

    (I had to encode it base64 to get past the lameness filter. Released under GPL, YMMV, don't yell at me if it breaks your box, etc.)


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  7. Re:That is part of the joys of SuSE... by gmuslera · · Score: 5, Informative
    If you have problem with that, better don't try to install debian where the package list should be several times bigger, and that just using the official sources.

    In the other hand, SuSE have some default selections or aggroupations of packages, where instead of selecting one by one you get in one category a lot of related programs (i.e. you can select KDE or gnome desktop, or development packages or things like that) selected in group but where you can deselect things from there. That helps dealing with such amount of programs.

    Another strategy you can use to install distributions with that order of available programs is install a "default" system (at least for the ones that provides you with that option) and install more programs when you need something you don't installed at the first time.

  8. Re:the live-cd should be free by kikensei · · Score: 4, Informative

    It is free. The only ISO they ever release for gtheir distros is a live CD. You can try a live CD for SuSE 9.0 right now if you'd like: ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/i386/live-eval-9.0

  9. Re:But the Real Joy with SuSE... by rsax · · Score: 4, Informative

    You can take it one step further by using a control file to partition, install and configure numerous machines without user intervention.

  10. Re:But the Real Joy with SuSE... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    Uhm, Red Hat has that. When you next do a RH (or Fedora) install, look for the file /root/anaconda-ks.cfg -- it contains installation settings and package selections, making it easy to deploy identical OS setups on zillions of boxes.

  11. Re:Pronunciation? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Informative

    It's properly pronounced Zoo-zuh.

  12. YaST licensing FUD and untruths by kikensei · · Score: 4, Informative

    Sigh. Have you EVER bothered to read the licensing for YaST? It is open, you can take it, reuse it. modify and redistribute it. You just have to credit SuSE and print "modified Version" on the menu screen and in the code. Read the YaST license for once instead of harping on Internet misconceptions. http://www.suse.com/us/private/support/licenses/ya st.html

  13. Re:My own experience with SuSE.. by xeper · · Score: 4, Informative
    YAST does make configuration a doddle in most cases but since every configuration change is made to the central YAST config file and then read from there, SuSE is not easy to move around when you're used to working at the command line - I find it disconcerting in SuSE when I go to edit a config file I'm used to editing and the first line in it says "# Please use YAST to make all config changes, do not edit this file directly" or words to that effect.


    Actually, there is no central YAST config file in recent SuSE editions. YAST reads from the /etc/sysconfig hierarchy, which is AFAIK LSB compliant. And it's been quite a while since YAST last changed manually edited .rc files on my system. Usually it just says something like 'Modified foo.rc found - skipping'.

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