Hi, I got SuSE 9.1 from a CD included freely with a Linux magazine. I was wondering about SuSE 9.2, as this has better support for my laptop (ASUS M5N). Is there a way to download the images? Or does this cost money to get it? Note, my meager goals with SuSE are for learning. I would like to document helper sites as a hobby to help users and as a IT admin for clients in the financial district, I would like to recomend the product for professional usage (as opposed to recommending RedHat)... - joaquin
On Monday 27 December 2004 20:51, Joaquin Menchaca wrote:
Hi,
I got SuSE 9.1 from a CD included freely with a Linux magazine. I was wondering about SuSE 9.2, as this has better support for my laptop (ASUS M5N). Is there a way to download the images? Or does this cost money to get it?
Note, my meager goals with SuSE are for learning. I would like to document helper sites as a hobby to help users and as a IT admin for clients in the financial district, I would like to recomend the product for professional usage (as opposed to recommending RedHat)...
- joaquin
SuSE 9.2 is still new and costs $90 for full install and $60 for upgrade. I would wait for the free download whenever it comes out if I were you. I tried upgrading from 9.1 and had serious problems. 9.1 worked fine with my laptop. I only upgraded (actually re-installed and saved home folder) for improved wireless support. Hope this helps! -Steven
On Mon December 27 2004 8:51 pm, Joaquin Menchaca wrote:
Hi,
I got SuSE 9.1 from a CD included freely with a Linux magazine. I was wondering about SuSE 9.2, as this has better support for my laptop (ASUS M5N). Is there a way to download the images? Or does this cost money to get it?
Note, my meager goals with SuSE are for learning. I would like to document helper sites as a hobby to help users and as a IT admin for clients in the financial district, I would like to recomend the product for professional usage (as opposed to recommending RedHat)...
SUSE IS the "professional" Linux of choice, IMHO. I'd recommend that you buy 9.2 because of the manuals. If you want to learn, they are of great value. Fred -- "As Internet technology itself vaults into new areas, so too does the Microsoft monopoly and its tried-and-true bag of tricks." -US Senator Orrin Hatch, (R) Utah
Fred A. Miller wrote:
On Mon December 27 2004 8:51 pm, Joaquin Menchaca wrote:
Hi,
I got SuSE 9.1 from a CD included freely with a Linux magazine. I was wondering about SuSE 9.2, as this has better support for my laptop (ASUS M5N). Is there a way to download the images? Or does this cost money to get it?
Note, my meager goals with SuSE are for learning. I would like to document helper sites as a hobby to help users and as a IT admin for clients in the financial district, I would like to recomend the product for professional usage (as opposed to recommending RedHat)...
SUSE IS the "professional" Linux of choice, IMHO. I'd recommend that you buy 9.2 because of the manuals. If you want to learn, they are of great value.
Fred
Hi Fred, That's why I'm gravitating towards SuSE. Long long ago, in an IT far far away, I delt with Netware. I was interested in becoming certified and all that until WindowsNT started becoming the dominant player. Now I'm in the Windows 2003 world of things professionally, but at home I have heterogenous environments: Solaris, MacOSX, MacOS9/MachTen, WindowsXP/2K/2K3 w/ CygWin. I am dabbling with Debian, gentoo, Knoppix, and FreeBSD. I used to be a big Mandrake and RedHat user. As much as I like RedHat's GUI utilities, I just cannot stomach it. Their enterprise platform RHEL is (1) inaccessible to non-commercial users, like poor starving students, and (2) I think uses a really old Linux kernel. Their personal platform well, is like an EOL product line. Lastly, I'm not sure that anyone vendor is innocent of this, but (3) many packages are so so insecure and are old hackable versions. So, I hope that SuSE fills the gap and I also hope that Novell apllies their tranings, certification, etc. expertise to this platform. :-) However, in the mean time, I'm struggling trying to get it to work on a M5N laptop: Intel i855GM, Synaptics touchpad, Intel ICH4 AC'97 (modem and sound), wireless (Intel PRO2100B), and RICOH CardBus bridge. I think I might have to dig in deep to get into XFree86, but every time I delt with that before, my heart beated heavy. I dislike editing XFree86 config files. Maybe it's newbie fear.... :-( - regarsd, joaquin
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