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

Still no full install ISOs....

[gumpish]

I've always been annoyed by the fact that SuSE has never made regular full-install ISOs available.

Blah blah ftp install blah blah... I've heard it before.

Can it fill the gap Mandrake 10 can't?

[eyeye]

I was going to install mandrake 10 today but it doesnt appear to support my on board ethernet (nforce2), will suse support it by default?

Oh hold on this a bloody "live cd" again isnt it - I thought SuSE had stopped being difficult about allowing their distro to be downloaded as CD images.

Obscure version numbering?

[PCM2]

My initial, kneejerk reaction on reading the headline was that this story was way, way out of date. Then I realized I was thinking of Mandrake. Does anyone else think Linux vendors could maybe come up with more informative ways of naming their releases? Just a month/year might be more appropriate. If someone blurts out that they're running SuSE 9.1, and I'm not familiar with the whole history of SuSE, I have no way of even guessing whether there's a 2.6 kernel in there, let alone all the other software with version numbers that are a whole lot more relevant than the version number of the distro itself.

Re:Obscure version numbering?

[be-fan]

It depends on the branch of Debian you are using. A lot of desktop users use sid, which tends to be very up-to-date. Right now, I'm using kernel 2.6.5, glibc 2.3.2, and kde 3.2.2, all of which are in the repository.

Re:Obscure version numbering?

[PCM2]

Yeah, but there you're talking about what's basically your own homebrewed, apt-assembled Linux box. When I used to administer Linux boxes for a living, they seldom resembled what came off the install CD, either. But these days, that seems to be changing. A lot of people will install Mandrake 10, or SuSE 9.1 or whatever, and barring a few patches here and there they might not do any kind of serious update (new kernel etc.) until the next major, packaged release comes out. Or the next set of downloaded ISOs, whatever.

Update From 9.0

[swtaarrs]

Is it possible now or in the near future to do an update from 9.0 to 9.1 using just YaST, without downloading new CD images?

Re:Dear SUSE

[aacool]

If Microsoft did that, Slashdotters would be all over them. funny how things change based on which side of the fence one is.

This is not a troll- just an opinion. It is definitely a big gap, and good that it was identified early - possibly earlier than it might have been were it in the closed-source world?

YaST?

[harlows_monkeys]

They said they were going to GPL YaST. Have they done so for this release?

Personal vs. Professional

[jonathanduty]

What Kernel/KDE/Gnome versions does the Personal version come with? THey are very specific about the specs of the professional version (Kernel 2.6. etc), but they do not say anything about what is included in the personal version?

Re:FTP Install

[Anonymous Coward]

Just download the full 9.1 installer DVD from alt.binaries.cd.image.linux on usenet. It's been in there for 2 weeks. If you are DVD-less, you can pull the appropriate files onto CD's by mounting the DVD .iso file.

Re:Sprock

[dentar]

So, if everyone downloaded instead of buying then I guess they'll eventually do what RedHat did and just pull everything and only offer their outrageously priced stuff.

Re: Same NForce Problem Here...

[John Blake]

Man I have installed 3 different versions of Linux within the last week to test it out and sure enough NONE Of them support the nforce Nic card out of the box! To be fair Windows XP Pro had no clue either. But with windows I simply went into device manager/update driver and placed my nforce cd in and that's that. So then I went to nforce website and downloaded the RPM for Linux and ran that, Sure enough upon following the README it still had no clue! wtf over??? We really need to get beyond this failure point in Linux. I hate to rant like a newbie but I started with Red Hat 5.0 and have came back over time over and over again with at least 4 different distro's and it's the same ole shit. Give us a unified area to control hardware, To load a module properly etc...If I download a driver and run the RPM or tar let me load it properly instead of telling me to go to a forum or something. Thanks