I've tried to access for the pass days, the official SUSE ftp server (http://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/i386/10.0/iso/) but is not able to get through.

Any idea how I could get hold of the Bittorrent ".torrent file" for SUSE 10 Evaluation Version?

Hello!

Try this server:

ftp://ftp.rz.uni-ulm.de/pub/suse/i386/10.0/iso/

ftp://ftp.belnet.be/linux/opensuse/d...n/SL-10.0-OSS/

ftp://ftp-stud.fht-esslingen.de/pub/...i386/10.0/iso/


Greetings

Torrents only seem to be available for the OSS version. Get the Eval version from a mirror: see http://www.novell.com/products/susel...ions_eval.html to find your nearest one.

There is a torrent for the Pro distribution on Piratebay but it's mostly leechers. As soon as my DVD comes in I will be ripping it and (after verifying the EULA and license.txt allow it) will post it but if people don't help seed it after downloading I will be yanking the torrent. If you use bittorrent to grab your distro, you ought to help others and share as well.

I just received the DVD but will be going away for a day or two (I NEED a day off!) so it will be a few days before I upgrade then rip the DVD, but here goes.

From the license.txt:

RIGHTS AND LICENSES

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("Novell") with respect to the software product identified in the
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I'll be wiping / on my box this weekend and doing a clean install of 10 (why? I want a clean install. I've installed other packages manually without running checkinstall to track them) but after that I will be ripping the DVD and posting a torrent. The DVD is dual layer so to burn it to a DVD you will need a dual-layer drive as the CD is 8GB. I will not be ripping the 5-CD set as many torrents for it already exist. If everyone leeches instead of allowing uploads I will be yanking the torrent, as a) it will be painfully slow for all b) leeching defeats the purpose of bittorrent and c) I can't afford everyone's hogging my bandwidth. The connection will be throttled to 64KB/s or 48KB/s during the day and will be much higher outside business hours. Initially to get others seeding I will set the connection limit to 3 users, otherwise nobody's download will ever complete. Once others are seeding as well I will increase the number of allowed connections.