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SUSE 9.1 Personal ISO Available For Free Download
twener writes "DistroWatch.com was the first to report that a complete, bootable, and installable ISO image of SUSE LINUX 9.1 Personal has appeared on SUSE's ftp server and its mirrors. No public announcement on SUSE's website is available yet. This is the first time ever that SUSE makes an ISO for i386 of one of its product flavors available. Don't forget that after installation you can install the packages of the SUSE 9.1 FTP version with GPL'ed YaST to gain an almost (commercial parts missing) SUSE 9.1 Professional installation."
This should help the adoption rate of SUSE, much like it did for Red Hat.
I wonder though if you can use an ftp to get extra packages that aren't included in this.
Read the frickin' story!
Don't forget that after installation you can install the packages of the SUSE 9.1 FTP version with GPL'ed YaST to gain an almost (commercial parts missing) SUSE 9.1 Professional installation.
Insomnia struck and I decided to try out Linux again. I got the Live CD first, then pulled down the personal ISO at 300 KB/sec from GA Tech.
I guess I got lucky. If someone will setup a tracker, I'd be glad to seed for a while.
It wasn't difficult but everytime I'd try an do an FTP install it was slow, very slow and I've tried different FTPs. It would take me about 2 hours to install when it would take 15 minutes tops to do a ISO install.
I just downloaded the whole i386/9.1 tree minus the src directory and burned it to a DVD using mkisofs and an iso burning program, and it worked fine for me. It was a professional edition.
This is plainly false. This is not the first time SuSE distributes their Linux Distro CD image. I remember back in 1997 or so, SuSE used to distribute their ISO's. That was even before their split their product versions in personal and professional. Last version I kind of remember they did that was 6.4.
9.1 has to be the biggest threat to windows yet. I dropped the DVD in and everything *everything* I needed was there and ready to use. Even things like my Wifi network worked without any configuration and it played every video/music file I tried to open. On the install it updated all the installed modules from a local FTP server with nothing more than a mouseclick. These are the things that if they don't work out of the box can throw off people who are not willing to search google for 45 minutes to find out how it set up.
This is the first distro I have seen that I would consider the real "Windows Killer". The release of an ISO will put it into the hands of a LOT more people.
The only concern I have is that some of the more useful features may have been yanked due to space limitations. I believe the DVD is over 2GB, versus a 600MB ISO...
What post? The one you're carrying inside your rusty innards!
Main FTP now running at 10.6 kb/s steady for US West Coast.
It is holding up well for being slashdoted.
I found another mirror doing 160 kb/s but it wont last for long =(
I downloaded the whole 7G of 9.1 because I wanted to go 2.6 kernel and I have never had so many problems with any distro. I've had 9.0 running for ages just fine.
I first tried a clean install but at the point where the installer runs up off the network (smb install) it said I had no keyboard. So I then did a clean 9.0 which went fine, follwed by a system update off the network. Right at the end it gave me an error message saying it couldn't install LILO - wtf was it trying to because I had GRUB!!
I re-did it, selected LILO instead of GRUB and it worked. I then made the mistake of pulling the kernel of the day and ended up with a system that refused to mount the root FS. That was even after a recompile to put Reiser and EXT3 in the kernel rather than modules.
I like Suse a lot - I must given I've gone back to 9.0 still. I'm just flagging that (for me at least) 9.1 was a flaky install.
No, there doesn't exist an x86_64 SUSE 9.1 Personal version.
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It's only the demo version (it watermarks the video). And it doesn't capture.
Rekall is a demo version too.
If you look at the amount of printed documentation in the boxed set, you will find that this is easily worth the money...
Trying to put some distinction between one distro and another is hard. I guess SuSE's strongest points are/were their administration and configuration tools. YaST is pretty amazing. There are certain downsides to it, but in overall it is very useful and intuitive.
I remember while I started liking SuSE in the first place. It was because other distro's tools were not at the same level by far (it has been a long time since I've stopped trying every distro I could get my hands on). Back when I started using it (1998 I guess), it was impressively ahead of the competition in this regard. I couldn't say how it holds up today if we were to compare current distros though.
Other than that, I just get a very professional / polished feeling about it, unlike some other distros I've used over time. This is very subjective, but I guess more than 1 person can say the same.
About a year and a half ago I wrote a script to parse the file list on the SuSE FTP server, find which files go on which CDs, download them, and create ISOs, then using the boot section off of their network install CD make the first one bootable. Full SuSE professional (commercial parts missing) for free! All on CDs!
It might have been easier to just download a warez version of the ISO images (from some p2p network, probable ed2k) and remove the commercial parts.
man, have you even considered looking for it before starting your ranting?
u se /i386/current/suse/src .com ftp is overloaded)
ftp://ftp.gwdg.de/pub/linux/suse/ftp.suse.com/s
(it's a mirror as the
you can get the binaries as well, of course.
I have not heard anything that YaST was actually GPL'd yet.
It is, according to the RPM on the 9.1 professional install CD.
Where can I download it?
From the main site and mirrors referred to in the original story. I only actually looked at one mirror, but it ought to be in all of them.
Come on, there is one more obvious place for it: in the source directory of the distribution (which is by the way offered for download). So:
ftp.suse.com/suse/i386/9.1/suse/src/yast2*
Here you are. So please stop trolling.
Someone at OSNews.com posted that tux.org has SuSE ISOs, and I found torrents here.
i so /
http://www.tux.org/pub/distributions/SuSE/i386/
You can find lot's of linux ISO's, including SuSE's at: TorrentReactor SuSE's are going quite strong :)
SUSE-9.1-personal-iso.torrent
SUSE-9.1-personal-iso.torrent
There's also a tutorial on the forums on Linuxiso.org Here which details how to download a copy of the FTP mirror, and create a full bootable DVD from the mirror, which contains everything the professional DVD has, barring the proprietary stuff.
Having just bought the boxed Personl Edition 9.1 (dammit), I feel fairly safe saying that this 1 cd ISO is the same as the boxed CD. The Personal box contains 2 cds, a live cd and an install cd. A pretty full featured installation with only 1CD, as well.
this is getting old and so are you
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