non-eval version of suse?

albean · 08-08-2005, 05:33 PM

Hi,

I've been using RH and switched to fedora when it first came out. I'm getting a little tired of upgrading every year. I'm thinking about trying out Suse but does a non-eval version exist? In other words I'm looking for a free-as-in-beer version of Suse to download. Is this possible? Once I get it installed are security patches available or do you have to pay for those. Any other advice or thoughts about suse would be appreciated.

Thanks,
Al

XavierP · 08-08-2005, 05:45 PM

http://iso.linuxquestions.org/distro.php?distro=20 - the Personal version is not an evaluation version and you can turn it into Pro via the power of YAST (which has been discussed at length on LQ)

albean · 08-08-2005, 06:03 PM

Thanks Xavier,

I will start looking at the Yast posts. I spotted the sticky one at the top is there another yast post that I should look at for a good starting point?

thanks agian.

XavierP · 08-08-2005, 06:09 PM

Do a search for "yast upgrade personal professional", that should be specific enough to track down the relevant threads. I recall that it's a matter of pointing YAST at the Pro repositories and upgrading. But it's been a while, so please read and research before doing that - there may be a step or two that I have forgotten.

Shade · 08-09-2005, 11:10 PM

albean, check out

www.opensuse.org

--Shade