Open S.U.S.E CD 6xxxmb vs. DVD 4.1Gb.

Mr.Carioca · 01-27-2008, 10:45 PM

Hey folks,

the title says it all, what is the differences between Open SUSE CD against Open SUSE DVD? What does the DVD has that the CD doesn't?

According to open SUSE:

Quote:

Originally Posted by Open SUSE

CDs

The CD version of openSUSE is English only. Additional language support is available via the openSUSE online repositories at installation time.

* 1 CD GNOME contains the default GNOME installation.
* 1 CD KDE contains the default KDE installation.
* The Non-Open Source Software CD contains packages with closed source or non-OSI-compliant licenses.

DVD

* The DVD contains the language support and all packages, including Non-Open Source Software. The following languages are supported: English, Portuguese, French, Italian, Spanish, German, Chinese (Simpl. & Trad.), Japanese, Russian, Czech, Hungarian, Polish, Finnish, Danish, Swedish, Dutch.
* The Extra Languages CD contains support for any other language. It is only to be used with DVD installations.

I personally don't need the other languages but what does "all packages, including Non-Open Source Software" mean? so is better if I go for the DVD against the CD?

Thank you so much for reading.

reddazz · 01-28-2008, 06:06 AM

The DVDs contain more software than whats available on the cds. The cds just include the SUSE base GNOME and KDE packages. Extra apps e.g. KDE/QT, GNOME, CLI, development tools, etc are available on the dvd. I personally just install the KDE version from CD and then install everything else from the online repositories.