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

I'll wait a week.

[Lord Kano]

The torrents will be slow as hell today.

LK

Re:I'll wait a week.

[Anonymous Coward]

WHAT?
you want a lot of people downloading a torrent.

Re:I'll wait a week.

[flatface]

Nosir. You want a better seed to peer ratio. And a slashdotting won't do that.

Re:Still no full install ISOs....

[Daemonik]

Blah blah SuSE blah no free ISO's blah blah I'm a spoiled child crying because I'm not getting my way blah blah

Gee, talk about hearing it all before.

Re:Remote hole!?

[molarmass192]

If this were a Microsoft or Apple product ...

The exploit would be a code defect instead of a configuration screw up. Also, it would be in the production product rather than the no-install, evalutation only version.

Re:Obscure version numbering?

[Beren]

How would that fix things? I could tell you I'm running "Debian 05/2004" and you still wouldn't know whether I was running a 2.6 or 2.2 kernel.

Especially with Debian! :)

I mean, really. There is no good way to do what you are asking, short of having something like the Geek Code for Distros... :)

Re:Remote hole!?

[happyfrogcow]

If this were a Microsoft or Apple product...

neither would we have been told about it, nor would it be fixed for 23 more days?

Re:on the contrary,

[Celandro]

Apparently noones sarcasm detector is working properly today.

*knock knock* is this thing on?

Mine's already waiting for me

[Helmholtz Coil]

Decided this time around I'd do the responsible thing and actually *gasp!* pre-order a copy of 9.1 to support a Linux company. Comes with the install CDs and the live CD to boot. Already got delivered and sitting at home-this clock at work really needs to hurry the hell up.

I think I'll count my donation to SuSE as my charitable donation for the year.

Re:It's called ease of use, not being spoiled...

[Anonymous Coward]

So...

Buy the boxed CDs, and be happy to support such a great Linux distribution?

You get some excellent printed manuals and all the software on both CDs and DVD, and it's excellent value - I'm off to order a boxed copy right now. I hadn't actually realised 9.1 had been released!

Best linux desktop so far!

[novakane007]

I've tried a ton of desktops. Mandrake 10, Fedora, Knoppix, etc. All of them were functional, but lacking in certain areas. They just didn't seem ready for an end user. I booted up the Suse 9.1 because I'm intereted in the Novell Linux play. I was instantly blown away. This is the most well designed, streamlined and functional Linux desktop I've used. Finally something tha can be installed and run by an end user without hand holding from a geek.

Re:Weeee!

[Sweetshark]

*realizes that SuSE offers no complete isos...*
*realizes the ftp-install option for 9.1 isnt out yet...*
*Thinks...*
*Runs away to the local store...*

Re:Can it fill the gap Mandrake 10 can't?

[pjkundert]

Just a note of caution if you are using the nForce2 motherboards with a 2.6 kernel. I just built up a new webserver/fileserver/wireless access point, using an ASUS A7N8X motherboard and Athlon 2600+, and wanted to run 2.6, reiser4 and software RAID. As soon as I did any disk I/O, it would hang solid.

Apparently, the 2.6.5 (and perhaps other) kernels trigger a bit of an nForce2 chipset problem; I needed to need to turn of APIC and Local APIC for them to work reliably at their rated speed. Here's how I did it using GRUB (my root partition is a mirrored RAID device). Note the "noapic nolapic" in the kernel specification. Using lilo, you would add an append="noapic nolapic" to your image=... stanza...

title GNU/Linux 2.6.5 MD+Reiser4+hostap (hd1,0) /dev/hdb
root (hd1,0)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.5 ro root=/dev/md0 noapic nolapic
initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.5

title GNU/Linux 2.6.5 MD+Reiser4+hostap (hd2,0) /dev/hdd
root (hd2,0)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.5 ro root=/dev/md0 noapic nolapic
initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.5

After this change, it's been running rock solid under heavy use for over a week. I am running Debian; perhaps the SUSE or other distributions have already patched their 2.6.X kernels for this problem, but I doubt it.

Re:No Inkscape?!!!

[FreeLinux]

It comes with 5 CDs and a single DVD version. In other words it comes with ~3Gigs of software but, not your favorite app. Come on man. Be reasonable.

Try as they have, it is still not possible for them to include every program that is out there. You can still install you favorite program, it just doesn't ship with 9.1

Of course there is also the possibility that SuSE or its customers think that Inkscape sucks and is not worthy of inclusion. I can't answer that as I have never heard of Inkscape, prior to your post.