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SUSE 9.1 Personal ISO Available For Free Download

Posted by timothy on from the that's-a-change dept.

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."

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  1. More SUSE by argonaut · · Score: 4, Informative

    This should help the adoption rate of SUSE, much like it did for Red Hat.

  2. Re:So...? by The+Analog+Kid · · Score: 4, Informative

    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.

  3. Not first time ever ISO by Jidus · · Score: 5, Informative

    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.

  4. Good news for linux beginners by chrispl · · Score: 5, Informative

    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...

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  5. If you can't download they will send you a CD by badzilla · · Score: 4, Informative

    Novell order form

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  6. SuSE ISO torrents by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Informative

    Someone at OSNews.com posted that tux.org has SuSE ISOs, and I found torrents here.

    http://www.tux.org/pub/distributions/SuSE/i386/i so /

  7. Torrent at http://tracker.tx.se - link below by cybe · · Score: 5, Informative


    SUSE-9.1-personal-iso.torrent