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SuSE Linux 9.3 Pro Released
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."
There's nothing to "fix" from a technology perspective, it's a legal/IP issue. AFAIK, the paid version includes such things out of the box, and the download version does not.
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My friends using SuSE swear by YaST, suse's configuration tool. I have heard (also from elsewhere, not just from these friends), that it is very user-friendly, yet powerful.
I'm waiting for the student edition, same price as upgrade, but with the manuals. If I were suse/novell, I would be less strict with the versions that have odd numbers, and make people pay up if they want the even-numbered distros a couple of months before it hits the ftp server. Oh, and it is worth the cash, ubuntu is getting closer, but nothing can really rival suse on laptop-support.
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Fine. Then don't buy it. You're not really their target market anyways.
Ubuntu is too unstable. Fedora is a moving target. If you're lucky, people won't yell at you if you ask for support in the IRC channels.
With most Linux distros, people spend way too much time getting shit to work. SuSE Pro tends to work better then the free distros, and it comes with polished versions of Evolution, OpenOffice, Samba, Xen, etc.
Some of us need to spend our time USING the software, not playing around.
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No ISOs available for 9.3 yet. Only 9.2.
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open the "change installation source" (or something similar, I use norwegian on mine) choose add - http type in packman.iu-bremen.de in the first field, then type in suse/9.3 in the second. now remove xine and kaffeine with add/remove packages, then you can install xine, mplayer, w32codecs, divx, xvid ++++
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actually, it is legal to distribute suse for free. i contacted them about a year ago about it. (i bought a box set of 9.0 pro and we wanted to install it on a box at work just for fun, and to hand out copies to my co-workers.) i eventually got in touch with their licensing/legal department and found out that it is ok. it's not legal to sell it because of the old YaST licensing, but it is legal to give copies away for free.
Exactly. And if you're a business, $100 to spend now is to save in productivity from bleeding edge distros or Windows. That's their market. The TCO savings from linux doesn't come from the cost of the software, but from increased productivity.
I really wish people stoped talking about things they obviously know nothing about, but then again, this IS slashdot.
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I can see how they're allowed to charge for it, but aren't others also allowed to distribute Suse for free?
The DVD edition of suse pro also includes some commercial software which can't be distributed. The FTP version (available in a month or two) won't include that software and will be completely free to distribute.
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