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."

Comments

Re:FTP Install

[King_of_Crunk]

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

Re:on the contrary,

[aardvarkjoe]

the more people "torrenting" the faster torrents are

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.

A Very Nice Distro

[DeckerEgo]

I just got my SuSE 9.1 Pro DVD/CD set in yesterday, and installed it on both my AthlonXP workstation and my Inspiron 8200 laptop. I've been waiting for a distro that has easy-to-manage Samba 3 & OOo 1.1 & KDE 3.2 & kernel 2.6 installations.

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.