On Wed, 29 Dec 2004 10:59:47 -0800, Joaquin Menchaca wrote:
Scott Leighton wrote:
On Tuesday 28 December 2004 8:41 pm, Steven Pasternak wrote:
When is the release of SuSE 9.2 Personal going to happen? Also, what about the 9.2 Personal free download .iso's? -Steven
There won't be a Personal version of 9.2, only the Professional version.
Scott
That's not good. I am professionally evaluating SuSE Linux for recomendations to clients. I have to verify the quality of the solution before recomendation, and I don't want to actually buy something that is only used for testing. As it stands, if SuSE is NOT available for NON-COMMERCIAL usages, then I will not be able to evaluate it.
Even mainstream commercial companies like Oracle and Sun Microsystems have their products accessible for non-commercial uses. And as for Microsoft, there stuff is so accessible (as it's everywhere), and with MSDN or Partner CD kits, it's easy to try a bunch of stuff. Even Novell long ago had an ill-fated developer program, though a lot of their software wasn't available through it at the time.
joaquin
The downloadable LiveCD is pretty good for most short-term testing and seems to have most of the functionallity. If you want to run it for a few weeks, you need to buy it or borrow CDs from someone. That does not seem to be too much of a hassle, but if none of that works, you could probably ask someone to put ISO copies online for you to download. I don't have the bandwidth to do it, but some LUGs did it for the 9.1 CDs with Novell blessing. Greg