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SuSE Linux 9.2 Professional Released

Posted by michael on from the if-you-love-something-let-it-go dept.

InnerPhalanx writes "Today, SuSE 9.2 Professional Edition has been released. SuSE writes: 'It combines a fast, secure operating system and more than 1,000 popular open source applications. It is the first complete Linux package to harness both the improved Linux kernel 2.6 and the recently enhanced GNOME 2.6 and KDE 3.3 user desktop environments. Ideal for Linux enthusiasts and developers, SUSE LINUX Professional 9.2 improves support for mobile users and delivers a host of essential tools.' More information at the SuSE website. The price is $89.95. The update version is $59.95. A live DVD image is also available on the SuSE website, for use by DVD. Have fun, SuSE Pro users!" Reader tannhaus submits an early review.

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  1. How about a laptop by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Insightful

    So when will Dell ship a SUSE laptop with compatablity right out of the box?

  2. That's a big download by RealAlaskan · · Score: 2, Insightful
    That live DVD is 1.3GBytes. SuSE is smart: they don't host it, they just have a bunch of links to mirrors. Maybe the SuSE site won't go down. The mirrors might be in trouble...

    So, nobody use the mirror I'm downloading from for about an hour and a half, so I have a chance to get done.

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  3. Re:Thinking of Switching your Enterprise To SuSE? by shawn(at)fsu · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I use SUSE at home and I enjoy it, that said I don't see how this posting is -1 troll.

    This kind of crap on /. needs to be fixed or it will stop being such a great site. You have all the tin foil hat people that say how they fear any new technology becuase it will be an invasion of privcay. You have the people that start yelling about teh goverments actions before the even read the article and you have the we hate microsoft so much we willmod posts that are citical of linux to -1 troll. It's getting crowded here.

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  4. Re:Does it have.... by trtmrt · · Score: 2, Insightful

    > ... centrino wireless networking drivers?

    This release of SuSE is supposed to have major improvements for laptop support and wireless, although I don't know anything specifically about the drivers you need.

    > NTFS drivers (read only ok)

    It has them.

    > X config that supports 1920x1200 displays

    On 9.1 this doesn't work out of the box but I recently set up a Dell laptop for a friend to work at that resolution after a short google.

  5. Re:DVD Player by pair-a-noyd · · Score: 4, Insightful

    but I want something that the **AA will acknowledge as legal.

    Why? Do you work for them? Are you in fear of the movie police bursting in and arresting you for watching a DVD with a $$ program versus watching the same movie on the same computer and the same DVD drive but a FREE program instead??

    Why do you have a burning desire to support these terrorists? Yes, the MPAA (and RIAA) is a terrorist organization. Most people here would agree with me on that. Do you have a guilt complex, do you feel bad that they aren't rich enough?
    Do you feel it's your civic duty to use software that you have to BUY and that phones home and reports your viewing habits to this terrorist organization?

    Do you just have too much money and feel "dirty" and feel that you can cleanse yourself by getting rid of that "dirty old money"??

    If you say it's because you are watching movies at work, you should be fired. If you are watching movies at home, who's watching you watch movies??

    Really...

  6. Re:Is Mandrake better? by umshaggy · · Score: 2, Insightful
    Who modded the parent as funny? It is a fact.

    From the news post: "It is the first complete Linux package to harness both the improved Linux kernel 2.6 and the recently enhanced GNOME 2.6 and KDE 3.3 user desktop environments."

    Just plain false. Mandrake 10.1 Official was released two days ago (on the 27th) and offers all of kernel 2.6, GNOME 2.6 and KDE 3.3.

    Now, I'm not trying to bash SuSE. Both SuSE and Mandrake are good distributions. Still, it is false that SuSE is "first".

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  7. No mplayer? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Legal issues or lack of space?

  8. Re:SUSE 9.2 Personal? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Insightful
    I have suse 9.1 installed by way of ftp. I do believe they will release a free public ftp install of 9.2, as they have this posted :
    ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/i386/9.2/README.txt

    Fri Oct 22 16:36:50 MEST 2004 - draht

    Dear visitor of ftp.suse.com or one of its mirrors,

    this is the directory in which the SUSE LINUX 9.2 product packages
    can be found.

    As of now, end of October 2004, only the source RPM packages for the
    product are being made available. The remaining binary packages for
    the SUSE LINUX 9.2 ftp version are being worked on and will be made
    available in this directory at a later time.

    Thanks,
    ftpadmin@suse.com.
  9. Re:DVD??? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Better yet, wait for the Personal version ISO!!! It's only a single CD and has everything you could possibly want. ANything else is just a quick & selective download away.

    honestly, why does everybody seem to think that we need 11 window managers and 40 text editors? Try Personal when it's available!!!!

  10. Re:What the hell? by Aldric · · Score: 2, Insightful

    The only proprietry software in SUSE (9.1 at least, not got 9.2 yet) is a few packages made by other companies that Novell have simply bundled with the professional version. Don't like them? Then don't use them! The only thing that's SUSE specific is YaST which Novell have already open sourced - bitch at the people that make your distro if you want YaST.