Fireedo,
Ports are to the Internet as radio stations are to radio broadcasts. They are essentially the "stations" that internet-aware services "listen" to. For instance, when you open your internet browser to go to a web site, your computer sends a data packet across the Internet, "tuned" to port 80. The server hosting the web page you're requesting only pays attention to packets that are tuned to port 80, and ignores everything else.

Kind of like when you tune your radio to your favorite station. Your radio will ignore all of the other stations that are being broadcast on the radio carrier wave, and only tune into the station you pick.

A firewall might be looked at as a radio frequency "jammer" - effectively blocking out web broadcasts we don't want to have coming into our network. Opening a port on the firewall would be akin to unjamming a particular radio frequency, allowing that type of traffic into our computers.

BitTorrent runs on ports 6346 to 6999, so those need to be opened up on your firewall (either software or hardware based) in order for BitTorrent traffic to be received and sent by your computer.

Azureus is a software client that utlizes the BitTorren protocols. It's a bit more detailed in the information it displays about a particular torrent. And because it's Java based, it runs on any platform - Linux, Windows, MAC, etc.

Hope this helps.

No one is aware of IRC? I've tried dwonloading SUSE from BT also but it takes a long while so I found it on IRC and it works just as fine. I used
REMOVED and found 2 channels with the ISOs. I got my from REMOVED in channel REMOVED on network REMOVED. It took be a bit over 3 hours download the 5 CDs, only because I could download 1 at a time and have 1 in que, so sometimes I forgot to add to que so it took a while, but asides from that, the avg speed was 384KBS at times hitting 400+

Can someone tell me the difference between the DVD iso that is being floated on BT and the size being ~3.5GB, while the boxed comes Dula Layer and ~7.9GB.

Can it mean that the DVD iso on BT is either Beta, or only contains 32bit version.

The reason for asking is that since DVD iso has not been anounced by Novell from ftp, it cannot be the "official" ftp version.

can I download it with a download manager? from "Packet news"?

it's probably a custom made dvd iso that is either 1) simply the normal 5cd torrent converted to a dvd for those that want to burn to dvd and not have to swap cds or 2) a custom rip of the full dvd that's had packages removed so that it'll fit on single-layer dvd media. option 1 is very popular and is what i think you're most likely seeing.

to fireedo

I have never used irc before but i added ChatZilla extension and cliking link opes ChatZilla. In ChatZilla check dcc settings and ask for the file

/msg REMOVED

replace x with numbers 2-6 to download all 5 isos (#2= cd1). After your request you must confirm to accept transfer.

i used firefox, mozilla has it too but it was different and firefox extension was easy

No, use mIRC its free even after evaulation period, just click on the channel link and type /ctcp BOT_NAME xdcc send #PACK and you're set.

Cool Guys. You have grabbed an unofficial version of SuSE ahead of them releasing it to the community. LQ does not and will not condone warez of any description. I have edited your posts to remove the links and information.

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[Edit] In response to the general question: Why would LQ consider torrents of Suse ISO's as warez?[/edit]

Because of Suse's policy on ISO's and similarly as described on Novell's site. If brief, Suse makes its releases available for free (via an FTP installation), and makes ISO's of its Live-Eval releases available for free as well. It does not however make its installation ISO's available for free.

If you have downloaded "Suse 9.3 ISO's" then a.) they aren't official and b.) there's no way to really be sure what exactly you have downloaded. I wouldn't recommend that anyone use a distro of unknown origin, as it very easily could have been corrupted with malicious software.

Bottom line is that if you want to install an official version of Suse but your budget can't cover the cost of the boxed set, then the only appropriate thing to do is to do an FTP installation. -- J.W.

how do u do a ftp install of suse 9.3

SUSE 9.3 ftp install is not available yet. Ftp install is available for 9.2. I know there is 9.3 directory on ftp but it`s not complete.

Although this tutorial was originally written for v9.1 my expectation would be that it would apply to v9.3 once it is released. Good luck with it -- J.W.

What is an unofficial version? Is it something that isn't legal to be downloaded? I thought Linux was free to be downloaded?

Regards,

Randy.

it's legal, it's just not "official". (it might be illegal if you were distributing a pre-release or something, i'm not 100% sure about that, but i would never knowingly distribute such a thing anyway.) you can believe me or not but i've spoken on the phone directly to suse about the legality of my torrent and have been told that there's no legal problem. suse will never promote a torrent (unless they made their own, hmmm...) or encourage anyone to get suse any other way than directly from them -- via retail or one of their official ftp/http mirrors. thus, my torrent and others like it are all unofficial, even if our md5s exactly match what you get compared to the boxed-set. the moderators are quite right to point out that most of those who download from such a torrent have no way of knowing if the software is untampered with -- if they had access to the original/official media they wouldn't need to download it from people like me. thus, i encourage you to check the md5s of any unofficial torrents you download with what's published officially as soon as that official base is available.