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SUSE 10.0 OSS Released

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the love-the-lizard dept.

O0o0Oblubb!O0o0O writes "Today, Novell released SuSE 10.0 OSS for download. Product highlights include kernel 2.6.13, gcc 4.0.2, glibc 2.3.5, improved boot times and Xen 3. Torrents are available for the i386, ppc and x86_64 versions. The downloadable OSS edition lacks some packages for licensing reasons of which some, like Java, can be installed via package repository."

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  1. Re:bloatedness - good point by taylork · · Score: 5, Informative

    Suse usually has a "network install" which is pretty much like this.

  2. Torrent mirror by zeth · · Score: 4, Informative

    I tried downloading the torrents from the ftp a while back and it was bogged. I have a copy of them, if their servers get bogged down again at http://johnny.chadda.se/2005/10/06/suse-100-finall y-released/

    By the way, I have tried the 10.0 RC1 and it was really great. The only thing not working is my P910i sync, but I'll work on that. :)

  3. And OpenXChange by Dr.Dubious+DDQ · · Score: 4, Informative

    Many of them, I think, are missing because of their dependency on (non-open-source) Java, which is not included. (In other words, Eclipse itself is OSS, but since it relies of non-OSS Java, they leave it out too.)

    I have no idea about the bitstream vera fonts, though - that makes no sense to me at all, since I was sure they were distributed as open source...

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  4. Re:bloatedness - good point by cortana · · Score: 4, Informative

    It makes more sense to create a program, we could call it Jigdo, that downloads the debs you want and constructs the iso on the client machine. ;)