Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (4398 mails)

[Marcus Meissner <meissner@xxxxxxx>]

On Thu, Sep 01, 2005 at 06:03:57AM -0500, Peter Van Lone wrote:
> On 9/1/05, Andreas Jaeger <aj@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> Andreas,
> 
> just to make sure I am understanding:
> 
> > There's no openSUSE.  OpenSUSE is the project and it delivers a
> > distribution.
> > 
> > There's a SUSE Linux OSS edition that only contains open source
> > packages.
> 
> so, the distribution this project delivers will be called SUSE 10 or,
> open SUSE 10?

Can you read?

"SUSE Linux 10.0"

And yes, the .0 is important because the next won't be "11" but "10.1".

Ciao, Marcus
 
> > > 4) Is possible to update from suse professional 9.3 to opensuse 10?
> > 
> > It is possible to SUSE Linux 10.0,
> 
> so to upgrade from SUSE Pro 9.3 to Open SUSE 10 is not possible,
> because there is non-OSS software in the 9.3 pro distribution?

Try reading Andreas mail.

> Can you briefly say what the non-oss packages are? JAVA for one,
> probably? What else?

Everything not opensource compatible, java, acroread, realplayer, flash, etc.

Ciao, Marcus