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SuSE Linux 9.3 Pro Released

Posted by timothy on from the crazy-upstart-operating-system dept.

InnerPhalanx writes "Today, SuSE Linux 9.3 Professional was released. After submitting the 9.2 update, I decided I should submit another article. The suggested retail price is $99.95 US. An update version is available for $59.95 US, in case you have an earlier version of SuSE Pro. More information, especially news about the product itself, is available here. As usual, there's a Live DVD release of SuSE 9.3 Pro as well as the 9.2 Pro Evaluation Version DVD ISO."

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  1. $99.95 USD? by R.Mo_Robert · · Score: 1, Redundant

    "The suggested retail price is $99.95 US." Isn't that a bit much, considering some other distros are free (free as in the kernel itself and the software typically built around it) or at least available for a reasonable price to cover the media, or at most the media and a reasonable support fee?

    I know this is the Pro version, but still. I'll stick with Ubuntu, Fedora, and the Personal Edition, thank you.

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    R.Mo
  2. It's crippled. by generalleoff · · Score: 0, Redundant

    I have installed SuSE 9.3 and yea alot of stuff has been updated, fixed, and improved. The little changes they made to the istaller are great, but due to the software patent problems with all the linux media players right now, SuSE 9.3 is sevearly crippled. It chips with almost no media support out of the box and installes a crippled version of the xine media player and I havent been able to get totem to play anything at all so far. It also ships with a known buggy version of GCC that Mplayer has blacklisted so compiling Mplayer is a pain. I have got Xine working 100%, Totem is still dead and Mplayer has yet to compile correct.

  3. Re:MP3? by syd02 · · Score: 0, Redundant

    I think it might be going too easy on them to say that it's only a legal/IP issue. Nobody forced them to do it the way that they did. With other distributions, you install a file and you've got mp3 support. The way SuSE has done it in 9.3, you need to recompile some things and then you lose the ease of package management for a bunch of your multimedia apps (updates, etc). If it's true that the paid version includes mp3 support out of the box, then I know now why they've done it the way they did...to differentiate the products in a really crappy way. Hello Novell.