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SuSE 9.1 Available for Download

Posted by michael on from the gecko-power dept.

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."

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  1. Still no full install ISOs.... by gumpish · · Score: 5, Interesting

    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.

  2. Can it fill the gap Mandrake 10 can't? by eyeye · · Score: 5, Interesting

    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.

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  3. Obscure version numbering? by PCM2 · · Score: 4, Interesting

    My initial, kneejerk reaction on reading the headline was that this story was way, way out of date.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.

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  4. Update From 9.0 by swtaarrs · · Score: 4, Interesting

    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?

  5. YaST? by harlows_monkeys · · Score: 4, Interesting

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