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Novell To Open Source SUSE

Posted by timothy on from the depends-on-your-definition dept.

jambarama writes "Newsforge reports Novell will be open sourcing SUSE professional under the name OpenSUSE. Is Novell following in the footsteps of Red Hat Inc., with its Fedora Core Linux distribution, or continuing its own open source policy as it has in the past as with YAST?" Note that it looks like the opensuse.org site is not yet up.

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  1. Hope this means ISOs. by (H)elix1 · · Score: 1, Redundant

    One of SuSE's biggest problem is they gave every excuse in the book (without stating the obvious about driving folks buy the boxed sets) about producing an ISO image for installing. The boot/FTP thing was a pain in the ass, the 'live' disks are not for someone using it normally. You could build your own image, but it was not easy. If anything comes out of the 'open' version, I hope it is distribution for install on one or more disks.

    And, as long ask I'm dreaming - wouldn't it be nice to see a distribution get the minimal or basic installation only requires one (possibly two) CDs? I am so very tired of downloading five or more CDs just because they packaged 20megs of required files on each and every CD.
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  2. Wow, they're open sourcing a linux distro! by Junior+J.+Junior+III · · Score: 1, Redundant

    Who'd a thunk it?

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