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Old 01-27-2002, 05:48 PM   #1
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Is SuSE free?


I thought all versions of linux were free to download. I was looking through the SuSE site and it seems they only offer an "evaluation" for download. Not the full OS? Can someone confirm or deny this?
 
Old 01-27-2002, 05:52 PM   #2
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From http://www.linuxiso.org:

"SuSE has chosen to not make freely available an installable i386/Intel version of their Linux distribution. They do, however, make an installable version available for the Sparc architecture, meaning Sun computers. The i386 version is a demo, uninstallable, evaluation Linux OS."
 
Old 01-27-2002, 05:52 PM   #3
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yeah they have it for free, download via FTP... but if you want iso's or cd's, you got to buy, they don't offer iso versions.
 
Old 01-27-2002, 05:56 PM   #4
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exact link for FTP: ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/i386/7.3
 
Old 01-27-2002, 06:06 PM   #5
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When you do a ftp installation though you have to translate that to xxx.xxx.x.xx format. SuSE IMO isn't worth the money you pay, i've been there, done that so take my word on it.
 
Old 01-27-2002, 06:11 PM   #6
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Free as in beer or free as in speach?......
 
Old 01-27-2002, 06:19 PM   #7
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What a buch of ..... What the hell is SuSE thinking. Kinda pisses me off. Well I heard BSD is king but I also heard its not something you start out with. So it looks like Ill stick with mandy or go back to RH. Are there any other flavors out there that are worth it. Heard slackware is a pain to install for newbies...

I dont know how to convert ftp to xxx.xxx.x.xx Any tutorials out there on this issue. Is it even worth it?

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Old 01-27-2002, 06:38 PM   #8
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if your in windows just open up a dos prompt and do "ping <address>" and it will show you the number for it.

Yeah, stick for linux and once your comfortable with the command prompt switch over to FreeBSD it is KING! i say KING!!! of all Unix's period.
 
Old 01-27-2002, 06:45 PM   #9
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what do you mean you have to ftp in x.x.x.x format.. i am sure any ftp program you can type the name of their ftp site which is ftp.suse.com ?? that works.. just tested it...
 
Old 01-27-2002, 06:52 PM   #10
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Nope, when you install SuSE from the floppy disks even if you setup the DHCP server and DNS correctly it still doesnt register correctly. So have the number handy.
 
Old 01-27-2002, 07:01 PM   #11
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Thanks!
 
Old 01-27-2002, 07:02 PM   #12
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you talking about after you start the install from the floppies you need the IP address to install via FTP, maybe since you wouldn't have DNS entries to lookup by name possibly.... but you can FTP to their servers using ftp.suse.com when already connected to net.

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Old 01-27-2002, 09:24 PM   #13
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I'll tell you this, its tricky.
 
  


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