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SuSE 9.1 Available for Download
Aiua writes "Novell and SuSE AG have made the Live Evaluation CD of SuSE Linux 9.1 available for download. A list of mirrors carrying the 680MB ISO image is available on the SuSE Website. The Live CD allows you to test some of the new features of 9.1 without installation, and is a SuSE recommended download to test your computer for distribution compatability. The full Personal and Professional Editions are now shipping and available for purchase in the SuSE Store or your local reseller." Reader Sweetshark points out that the first release of the Live CD has problems, so make sure you get the most recent one: "SUSE Security Announcement: Live CD 9.1 (SuSE-SA:2004:011) describes a big security hole in the SuSE 9.1 Personal Edition Live CD: 'Upon boot, the Live CD will automatically configure a network card if one has been detected. [...] A configuration error on the Live CD allows for a passwordless, remote root login to the system via ssh, if the computer has booted from the Live CD and if it is connected to a network.' A fixed iso is available."
no the live CD has been available for days now... the FTP install has not been updated yet...
I've been waiting... can ya tell?
Note to self: No more arguing with the faithful.
Well you going to have to wait a bit longer...
From the readme.txt on the suse ftp site:
Wed May 5 12:50:00 MEST 2004 - draht@
This tree contains the source RPM packages for the SUSE LINUX 9.1
distribution. The SUSE LINUX 9.1 ftp version will be published on June 4th
in this directory.
Thanks,
Roman Drahtmüller,
Sebastian Nagel,
ftpadmin@suse.com
You can get Suse isos here for $10.
Scott
G-Vegas, NC
The article title seems to say that the full SuSE 9.1 is available for download, when is a bit far from it. As far I remember, SuSE always had a "live" demo to test it released around the same time as the full product and available for free download, but that don't mean that can be installed in hard disk or from it install the full 9.1 ftp version from their servers.
SuSE have been releasing Live CD ISO's since at least 2000, actually before Knoppix came to the scene.
Really nothing new here, apart from maybe more people paying attention.
StarTux
The GPL ensures Open Source not FREE source. If they distribute GPL programs they must provide scource code to those they have DISTRIBUTED to not anyone. If you have not bought the retail 9.1 you are not entitled to their scource code as they haven't distributed anything to you. I don't think they technically every have to provide a free download. Why complain that they give paying customers a month head start?
Not neccessarily. When there are few people with the whole file, the torrents will be fairly slow, even if there are lots of peers. On the other hand, if you wait a few days, there will be lots of people with the full file, and not many people downloading it.
Typically, for a new torrent with lots of people downloading at once, my download speed will stay around the 30-70 kB/s range. For a somewhat older torrent with sufficient numbers of people seeding the file, I'll often get 200-300 kB/s or better. Of course, YMMV, but the general trends seem to be pretty consistent.
How can we continue to believe in a just universe and freedom to eat crackers if we have no ale?
Someone should link the gpl here; I'm too lazy and need to take a shower and head out for debauchery and stuff. But the relevant verbage is in there. The only reasons Linux companies provide the source to the General Public is because it's good Karma.
Marxism is the opiate of dumbasses
This is no more offtopic than the original parent post, and it got +5 Intersting.
Just because someone thinks ftp isn't convenient as an ISO download that gets an interesting modification? Someone tells them that GNU GPL doesn't mandate that it has to be an ISO in the same langauge they use it's off-topic?
Somebody give me +Informative modpoints for informing moderators how to mod correctly.
BSD is designed. Linux is grown. C++ libs
i installed 9.1 last night and the nforce2 net drivers work great. I was also amazed that it picked up my usb flash disk reader without any extra configuration at all. It works like a champ from i can tell so far
Now that SuSE's using submounts, tho, things are kinda weird when trying to run installers that expect to be able to run the mount command (i.e. UT2004). Since it dynamically mounts the media, you can't run a mount command any more without changing fstab.
SuSE's is my favorite installer so far (I like thinking of installation processes as checklists, which is how SuSE organizes them) and YaST2's integration into KDE's control panel is nice. Also it bears noting that this has both 32 and 64 bit installations - they aren't charging extra for 64 anymore.
The only tweaks I've had to make so far are to KDE's look and feel. Such a nice time saver to have a works-out-of-the-box installation.
Mandrake 10.0 kernels (2.6 or 2.4) support nForce ethernet without problems, the driver is called forcedeth. And, oh, it is present in vanilla kernels too.
Yes. Yast was GPLed some weeks ago and the source has been available on their site for eons.