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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 is the first time ever that SUSE makes an ISO for i386 of one of its product flavors available
Except of course for the LiveCDs.
Vonal Declosion
SuSE will be at higher grounds if thay fully support personal distribution and it will take away some many users of (RH) Fedora
Looks like just more of Novell moving SUSE in the direction of its own vision. Ximan Desktop, Exchange connector, GPL of Yast, etc. This isn't really that much of a shock. Though, it is another welcome change.
YaST is now GPL but how does that apply to the rest of the software in Suse personal and professional? I downloaded a copy of the ISOs for SuSE pro 9.1 from a private FTP site that I found on LinuxISO.org. But I've never been sure how legal that was.
A Linux Users Group that I am a member of was asked a couple of years ago to stop selling or even giving out copies of SuSE. They said they didn't mind if you copy for a friend but any organized duping they would take action against.
Has this changed? And could someone point to an offical statement from SuSE?
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> This is the first time ever that SUSE makes an ISO for i386 of one of its product flavors available.
And what did I get on PC-Plus October '98 edition?
BTW, it rocked and it sucked, because...
Now that I know Linux, I see that Slackware-based distros are "the best". They even are simpler, from a technical standpoint. OTOH, they're bad for newbies (compared, e.g., to Knoppix), which is what I was then.
...is Ximian/NOVELL GNOME Desktop for SuSE 9.1. Laurent
Because the consumer side of the Internet tends to be asymmetric: upload bandwidth is more expensive than download bandwidth, at least with cable and DSL.
Until that changes (when everyone gets fibre-to-the-home, perhaps?), then BitTorrent and other P2P programs will cause headaches for ISPs.
You can just wget the whole 9.1 directory and use that to install using NFS or FTP over your own network. It's fast and no need to swap out CD drives to systems that don't normally use them.
Indirectly, too, you are helping other OSS projects too, SuSE/Novell is actively developing and helping i.e. reiserfs, kde, Openswan, etc.
So the advantages a bit depends on you. You don't need help and the manuals are ok for looking them online? ok. You have enough bandwidth to install it from the net? ok. You want it to keep coming? then think on doing something for them in return.
Of course, you can do something too for Mandrake, Fedora, Gentoo and Debian, if you happy with any of them any help you can give them probably will end in you getting a better distribution in part because your contribution.
ftp installs are only posible for broadband users ... and even then, i would never try it ... a suse iso is a good thing
This 'not for-profit distribution' restriction came AFAIK from the Yast license. The Yast license allowed free (and only free) distribution, selling Yast for profit (or even small fees) was not allowed. Now Yast is GPL that should be sorted out. I don't know about the restrictions imposed by commercial software on the ISOs.