SUSE Linux 9.3 FTP Version Released

twener writes "Nine weeks after the official release of SUSE Linux 9.3 Professional Novell has made available the FTP edition for everyone as a 4.2GB DVD ISO image (both i586 and x86_64) or 5 CD images (stripped-down, i586 only) on their mirrors. Additionally, all until-now missing RPMs have been uploaded, so you can also do a network installation using the 57MB netinstall ISO." Update: 06/27 19:37 GMT by T : Yes, that's RPMs, not RMPs. Sorry!

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Package Sources

[linuxpoweredtrekkie]

If you install using the 5cds you can still access all the packages from the full mirror simply by adding a mirror as a yast source, see http://susewiki.apanela.com/tutorials:yastsources

This is so last week's news

[PB8]

Already had the 5 CD set downloaded, burnt, and installed as of last Thursday from a bit torrent version that had the blessings of Novell. Yes, it indeed took several days to get it via Bit Torrent at 44kps. But it was so worth it to beat the slashdot crowd!

Yes, getting multimedia up and running is a bit of an effort. No, it's not hard:

How To fix multimedia in SuSE 9.3

Yast Update Online - install the "multimedia pack 1, 2, 3" updates.

But it doesn't have....no, wait...SuSE users frequently find additional rpm packages on Packman that meet their additional needs:

Packman
Have lots of fun!

Re:For those who run SuSE

[Erik Hensema]

The only changes I've seen so far are:

• Yast is GPL'ed
• The above means it's legal to distribute iso images
• Better gnome support
• Some novell logos here and there

I haven't tried 9.3 yet, but I will upgrade my 9.2 workstation to 9.3 somewhere next week I think.

The stability is very good in my experience. I don't think I've ever encountered a crash on a server which wasn't hardware-related. Yes, desktops do crash, but that is to be expected, sadly. There's simply too much hardware to support and the user simply does far too many stupid things.