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15 Oct
2001
15 Oct
'01
10:39
What they do do is that *in addition* to producing the excellent Professional and Personal Editions, the distro team produce an FTP Edition which contains the Professional Edition software minus the commercial software. This usually comes out shortly after the boxed copies are available for purchase, because it is (understandably) a slightly lower priority than the boxed editions.
You can install the FTP edition over FTP from ftp.suse.com or a mirror (please please please use a mirror)
Then WHY can they not make this "FTP" release available as an ISO image for downloading, and give carte blanche for people to distribute it ? It would only be increasing their profile.. Jon