Go to the rpmfind or pbone site, and search for an rpm such as coreutils. The ftp address for the SuSE 9.3 x86_64 package should contain all of the others.

Or google for: coreutils "suse 9.3" x86_64
This should help you find a mirror of all of their packages.

For example, using google, I found this link:
ftp://ftp.tu-clausthal.de/pub/linux/...3/suse/x86_64/

Looking around I'm sure you'll find what you want.

Of course an alternative is to go with a different distro. I believe that the X8s6_64 version of Mandrake 10.1 is on the mirrors for download now.
I had purchased SuSE 9.2 at best buy, So I didn't have to jump any loops. I don't know if the 10.1 Release (book and dvd) for Mandrake contains the X86_64 version.

I personally like rpmseek.com for Suse binaries. But yea, like the previous poster said, the value add for a "distro" is that they make it easy for you. They are only constrained to release the source code of their compiled binaries, nothing more. They give you the option via the GPL to compile it yourself ala Gentoo or any other OS.

I think it's fair and equal. It may not be nice and warm and fuzzy, but nothing good comes easy. If you want to be lazy, then you pay for it. If you want it for nothing, then you make it yourself.

The only time I have a problem is when they have some mandatory proprietary code that I can't touch- like YAST was a few years back. I didn't use SuSE simply because of YAST being closed. I said fuck them in the goatass- until the open sourced it.

I am frankly happy to pay these people to tweak the OS for me. If I don't like their tweaks, I don't pay them, and I do it myself. rpmbuild --rebuild *src.rpm is not hard. One command and you get your binary. Most distro's these days give you the full binary OS after at release, but some don't and it's their right under the GPL to not do so. Mandrake, Fedora, Gentoo, Debian, WhiteBoxLinux etc. have binary and source up at the same time. RedHat EL/ES/WS, SuSE Pro/desktop, Sun Java Desktop, etc. just release the source code for the binaries and their patches.

They may release a non-installable(LiveCD) or gimped kernel(no SCSI support) to let you test it and see if it gives you wood. And that's where it stands now and evermore kid's. Get used to being self-sufficient, or get used to paying for not doing anything.

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Velomoose, you have it all in perspective. The freedom and power of open source is evident whenever you have to spend even one second using Windumbose. In exchange for that, we have to assume the responsibility to do some things on our own, to become saavy to the point that we can take the developers work and implement it--get it to work. In doing so, we gain a deeper understanding of the code, the operating system, our machines..., each and every time we install software. We are not spoon fed, we are self sufficient! Windoze users pay, pay, and pay for the freedom to not understand their systems, to not be able to understand how to overcome a glitch without calling tech support and spending hours on hold, to pay through the nose for software that sucks.

Oh, but its still pretty good! You just ran out of free space. The stuff you are trying to do now will force you to get a little more knowledge. And that's a good thing.

I bought my AMD 64 about a year ago. I run Slackware, so I planned to build my own 64 bit system. After some intense effort to build a 64 bit cross compiler without success, I had to turn my attention to other things for awhile. I could have installed Gentoo, Fedora, Mandrake or Suse 64 bit distros, but that wouldn't be half as sweet as figureing out how to do the 64 bit compiler myself, and then using it to compile a kernel and then a complete linux install.

I don't honestly believe everyone has the temperment to approach linux like me, but its like Zen, in a way: if you make the effort, you will be rewarded.