New Releases for Debian and SUSE

Posted by timothy on Sunday April 17, 2005 @08:27AM from the don't-move-along-something-to-see dept.

linuxbeta writes "With the recent SUSE LINUX 9.3 Live DVD ISO released, we get a sneak peek. (screenshots) of this much anticipated OS update. Cool updates in 9.3 includes Firefox 1.0, OpenOffice.org 2.0, Gimp 2.2, Beagle. Xen, VoIP client, and more." And while Debian's Sarge isn't here yet (give Branden Robinson a chance to find his plush new office!), wrochal points out that the fifth update to Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 ("Woody" ) has arrived. 3.0 (r5) "mainly adds security updates to the stable release, along with a few corrections to serious problems." Also, four packages were removed, three for license violations.

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Re:Excuse me? by FreeLinux · 2005-04-17 10:25 · Score: 1, Redundant

They bought paid licenses for DVD support and distribute closed/propertiary version. And you need to pay for it. So what exactly is your point?

The point is the SuSE/Novell have chosen to not pay for the license and there is no excuse for this. There is no DVD support in the paid-for version. There is simply no legal DVD playback support or MP3 encoding in SuSE. Yet little-ole Linspire was able to afford this "heavy" licensing fee and still ship its distro and DVD player for a lower price than SuSE 9.3.

This is particularly ironic since Novell just sent out a DVD bundled with their Connection magazine but SuSE can't leagally play that DVD.