Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (6210 mails)

[Randall R Schulz <rschulz@xxxxxxxxx>]

Ronald,

On Saturday 01 October 2005 00:35, Ronald Wiplinger wrote:
> I downloaded the iso images, but I doubt that it is complete!   Is
> there a way to check it?

You're comparing the 9.3 Professional release with the 10.0 OSS 
release(s). That's not a valid comparison, since the OSS releases are 
strictly limited to software released under and Open Source License 
(hence the "OSS"). The same restriction does not apply to the Novell 
commercial distributions which include considerable non-OSS software.

Keep in mind, too, that for 9.3, only the DVDs contained the full 
complement of the release. If you installed from the CDs then you had 
to use the on-line sources to retrieve the packages that were not 
included on the CDs.


> ...
>
> I want to take these three sets of installation with me to China. I
> hope that the guys can prepare a AMD 64 (Athlon), so that I can
> install the x86_64 set. The other sets are as a fall back set.

You do realize that these images are for RC1. In all likelihood, there 
are differences w.r.t. the final release.


> Any comments are welcomed!
>
> BTW, the torrent solution is the slowest one. I can download the iso
> images with 180kB/s, while with torrent I come to max 3kB/s

By allowing 45KB outbound, I was able to get about 350 KB (yes, 
kilobytes per second) inbound. It only took a few hours to get all five 
images. (That was yesterday morning. On the other hand, it wasn't until 
just before I got up this morning that the share ratio on those 5 ISO 
images exceeded the 1.0 mark.)


> bye
>
> Ronald Wiplinger


Randall Schulz