noob question about Suse versions.
I want to try Suse, but i am not sure what version to grab. Does the Evaluation version of Suse 10 run off a DVD or does it install. I'm not sure what to get to instal as an OS, to try out the Evulation version or just instal the Open Source version Thanks Richard
On Mon, 2005-10-10 at 14:19 -0700, Richard J. A. wrote:
I want to try Suse, but i am not sure what version to grab.
Does the Evaluation version of Suse 10 run off a DVD or does it install. I'm not sure what to get to instal as an OS, to try out the Evulation version or just instal the Open Source version
Thanks Richard
The Evaluation Version of 10.0 installs to the hard drive. If you want to see how it works without installing, grab the LiveDVD walt
Tuesday 11 Oct 2005 02:49 samaye Richard J. A. alekhiit:
I want to try Suse, but i am not sure what version to grab. Does the Evaluation version of Suse 10 run off a DVD or does it install. I'm not sure what to get to instal as an OS, to try out the Evulation version or just instal the Open Source version
It has been almost unanimously decided on this list (pardon me for presumption, others) that the label "Eval" is misleading. The so-called "Eval" DVD installs quite well - I have installed SUSE 10 using it and am running on that install right now. If you want something to just run from the DVD and not touch your HDD, choose the "Live" DVD. That's "Live" as in Knoppix. The difference between the OSS (open source) version and the other version is that the OSS version does not include packages like Acrobat Reader, Macromedia Flash etc, since those are not open-source. But you can always install those packages from FTP repositories or downloaded RPMs. Oh yeah, and before you ask, the "Eval" DVD (the i386 version) contains exactly the same material as is in the 5 CD ISOs. No difference. And the 64-bit version of SUSE 10 is only available as an "Eval" DVD. Not as 5 CDs. HTH. Shriramana Sharma.
I also think that the footnotes at http://www.opensuse.org/Template:ReleasesTable answer most such questions, so if anyone else asks these same questions, they can be simply pointed to that page! :)
On Mon, Oct 10, 2005 at 08:51:09AM +0530, Shriramana Sharma wrote:
I also think that the footnotes at http://www.opensuse.org/Template:ReleasesTable answer most such questions, so if anyone else asks these same questions, they can be simply pointed to that page! :)
Just point them to the main page: http://www.opensuse.org/Download Easier to rember and will be mor acurate then just part of it. houghi -- Quote correct (NL) http://www.briachons.org/art/quote/ Zitiere richtig (DE) http://www.afaik.de/usenet/faq/zitieren Quote correctly (EN) http://www.netmeister.org/news/learn2quote.html
Does the Evaluation version of Suse 10 run off a DVD or does it install. I'm not sure what to get to instal as an OS, to try out the Evulation version or just instal the Open Source version
It does install, so you can use it as your installable distro but, as I commented in reply to your message on that other thread, please only do that if you simply cannot afford to pay the cost of a box. The people who work full-time on this work extremely hard, and they are paid by Novell. Now, Novell are being exceptionally cool by distributing ISOs of what is basically their commercial product, but if that resulted in noone buying it, then as a business they'd simply have to pull away from it. Support the community, buy a box and keep AJ in donuts for a week ;) Incidentally, if you want a version that just runs off the DVD: ftp://ftp.suse.com/suse/i386/10.0/iso/SUSE-10.0-LiveDVD.iso or your favourite mirror. -- James Ogley james@usr-local-bin.org Packages for SUSE: http://usr-local-bin.org/rpms Make Poverty History: http://makepovertyhistory.org
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