"that means that they are not the original CDs! who knows what trojans are in that version with alot of updates!"

From my experience, pirates are infinitely more honest than corporations. 10 to 1 odds. Do not confuse pirates with malicious crackers. They are not the same thing.

Pirates have peer review. Corporations have lawyers. I'm not saying that Novell is that kind of corporation- but they are in the end a corporation beholden to stockholders- rather than their customers.
Pirates are beholden to their customers, because their group name will be instantly outcast and p[ermanently excommunicated if they even fart in the wrong direction.

In case you were making a joke, then yea, that is funny. Microsoft excuse number 152 why you should pay 400 dollars for an office suite.
I avoid the whole issue entirely, and use GPL'd software. That way, everyone's happy- and the FUD makers can choke on it while I get my work done.

anyone know were to get the 64-bit edition? im running 32-bit on my athlon 64 and it just seems like a dam shame

I don't see it out, but you should probably wait nevertheless. There is no functional apt4rpm repository up yet, and swapping CD's is a real pain when you have 5 of them. Can't just copy them to hard drive either- it gets confused.

Have to say that I hear it's a slick OS. Definitely worth the ducat.

ya its spiffy, i have it in 32 bit, and i would need it in cd's neways, i dont have a dvd burner =(

Unless I am mistaking, it's already available on SuSE ftp site and mirrors:
http://mirror.switch.ch/ftp/pub/suse/i386/9.3/

only problem is that I'm not seeing the 64 bit version.

SuSE is not a pure 64-bit, its hybrid of 32-bit and 64-bit, so if you would look closer, then you would undestand that there is 64-bit version:
http://mirror.switch.ch/ftp/pub/suse...3/suse/x86_64/

Yast tree is above of course, because as I mentioned SuSE is a hybrid

thanks for the link and the condescending remarks. Hope you feel better about yourself.

epenis++

As an addenudum, the Live DVD is aviailable now, so if you guys wanna test an iso on 64 bit or 32 bit, you can. They separately compiled the iso's.

ftp://mirror.mcs.anl.gov/pub/suse/i386/live-dvd-9.3/

I downloaded it from www.isohunt.com via www.torrentsearch.com ( a torrent search engine)......
It's a 5 CDs version and it works like a charm!

Pheidon,
I don't think that link is for the ISO. It looks to me like it's probably for the FTP install, or a YAST update source.

I've got less than 100 MB left to go on my Torrent. I'm wondering...does anyone know if these can be burned to a DVD? I'm not talking about making a bootable DVD from it. I mean, once I burn the ISO images to CD, can I burn the files to DVD under separate folders and then use them as update folders?

Oh, I do hope I make sense there.

Yes, you make sense. I've been looking at this, and you would need to Merge/recreate the INDEX.gz or INDEX file with the packages mapped to one directory, rather than separate CD's. And one file on one CD has 3500 entries.

I don't have that kind of motivation to do it, so I'll just wait for the purchased version to show up. Although others may have more will and scripting intellect than I, and kudos if they do.

ok, adding the yast source makes it want to install a bunch of 32 bit packages. How do I show it the 64 bit packages?