-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 The Friday 2005-07-08 at 22:51 -0800, Greg Wallace wrote:

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From ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/i386/9.3/iso/README_eval.txt:

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What's the difference between the CD and DVD edition ====================================================

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* the DVD edition contains the complete 64-bit version of SUSE LINUX Professional 9.3 as well as a streamlined 32bit version of the software. * the CD edition contains a complete 32-bit version of SUSE LINUX Professional 9.3. It including approximately 450 additional packages not available on the 32-bit version included on the downloadable DVD image. These additional packages are mostly language packages for applications and development versions of various software libraries.

Wow! From earlier posts, I had come to believe that the DVDs now had the most complete set of packages in general. What this says (as you say) is that the 64 bit version is only on the DVD but the most complete 32 bit version is on the CDs. That's completely different. I must have really been misreading some of those earlier posts.

In the case of the bought dvd, it is different, it is complete with both 32 and 64 bit versions, and the CDs are incomplete. But it is a double layer one. Funny choice! - -- Cheers, Carlos Robinson -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.0 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Made with pgp4pine 1.76 iD8DBQFC0RCvtTMYHG2NR9URAhE/AJ9w5yDzYqcTlwOOMPknIDwAexQkFACfRxLn +wRdzj3oNruegpLOS4YBPU4= =LMWT -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

On Sunday, July 10, 2005 @ 8:52 PM, I wrote:

On Sunday, July 10, 2005 @ 4:12 AM, Carlos E. R. wrote:

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The Friday 2005-07-08 at 22:51 -0800, Greg Wallace wrote:

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From ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/i386/9.3/iso/README_eval.txt:

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What's the difference between the CD and DVD edition ====================================================

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* the DVD edition contains the complete 64-bit version of SUSE LINUX Professional 9.3 as well as a streamlined 32bit version of the software. * the CD edition contains a complete 32-bit version of SUSE LINUX Professional 9.3. It including approximately 450 additional packages not available on the 32-bit version included on the downloadable DVD image. These additional packages are mostly language packages for applications and development versions of various software libraries.

Wow! From earlier posts, I had come to believe that the DVDs now had the most complete set of packages in general. What this says (as you say) is that the 64 bit version is only on the DVD but the most complete 32 bit version is on the CDs. That's completely different. I must have really been misreading some of those earlier posts.

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In the case of the bought dvd, it is different, it is complete with both 32 and 64 bit versions, and the CDs are incomplete. But it is a double layer one.

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Funny choice!

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- -- Cheers, Carlos Robinson

I'd been thinking about that myself. I guess the demo version has only a subset of the packages available on the bought version and that the full set of packages is just too much for a CD to hold.

Greg Wallace

Never mind. I'm still getting confused between this demo site and what comes in the boxed set. According to this site, -- "the CD edition contains a complete 32-bit version of SUSE LINUX Professional 9.3." But based on other posts, I have read that there is really more on the DVD in the boxed set than on the CDs in the boxed set. So, I'll try to summarize with a lot of reading between the lines. 1) The on-line CDs are more complete than the on-line DVDs. 2) The DVD in the boxed set has more than either of the above and is the most complete of all. 3) The CDs in the boxed set don't have everything that's on the DVDs in the boxed set. Maybe the boxed set CDs are the same as the CDs in the demo, maybe there are some additional packages on the CDs in the boxed set (or maybe not?), but there aren't as many packages in these CDs as on the DVD in the boxed set. Could anything be more clear? Greg Wallace

On Sunday, July 10, 2005 @ 10:21 PM, Adreas Jaeger wrote:

"Greg Wallace" writes:

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But based on other posts, I have read that there is really more on the DVD in the boxed set than on the CDs in the boxed set. So, I'll try to summarize with a lot of reading between the lines.

1) The on-line CDs are more complete than the on-line DVDs. 2) The DVD in the boxed set has more than either of the above and is the most complete of all. 3) The CDs in the boxed set don't have everything that's on the DVDs in the boxed set. Maybe the boxed set CDs are the same as the CDs in the demo, maybe there are some additional packages on the CDs in the boxed set (or maybe not?), but there aren't as many packages in these CDs as on the DVD in the boxed set.

Could anything be more clear?

Yes, that's correct. In addition:

* The online CDs are exactly the same as the one in the box with the only difference that they run an md5sum test at the beginning. * The DVD is a subset of what's on the box DVD (the online DVD has 4.5 GB so that you can burn and read it with every DVD burner, the box DVD has 8.5 GB which means you need a dual layer burner and might not be able to read it everywhere).

.Andreas

-- Andreas Jaeger, aj@suse.de, http://www.suse.de/~aj SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, Maxfeldstr. 5, 90409 Nürnberg, Germany GPG fingerprint = 93A3 365E CE47 B889 DF7F FED1 389A 563C C272 A126

Thanks. I'm saving this note off to my suse linux notes directory in case I get confused again later (knowing me, not entirely unlikely). Greg Wallace

On Monday, July 11, 2005 @ 2:02 AM, Andreas Jaeger wrote:

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[...] Thanks. I'm saving this note off to my suse linux notes directory in case I get confused again later (knowing me, not entirely unlikely).

Try to get it on the suse wiki ;-) and then ask me to proof read it...

Andreas -- Andreas Jaeger, aj@suse.de, http://www.suse.de/~aj SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, Maxfeldstr. 5, 90409 Nürnberg, Germany GPG fingerprint = 93A3 365E CE47 B889 DF7F FED1 389A 563C C272 A126

Duh, what's the suse wiki? Greg Wallace