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Dear Void Main....RE:8.0
TheQuirk:
Heh. I don't think that's a *legal* download. SuSE 8.0 pro? They're crazy to release it as a download!
Besides, don't programs that are not downloadable get on SuSE Pro (StarOffice, for example?)? I'm not too sure if Sun would be too happy about that.
Oh well. Seeing as I have no ethics anyway, I'll download it.
voidmain:
quote:Originally posted by The Master of Reality / Bob:
meh... its gud to post your immediate thoughts and first impressions and then later post what its really all about.
well... the crappy ass link to the iso.gz doesnt work for me.
[ October 07, 2002: Message edited by: The Master of Reality / Bob ]
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It was busy for me but I just set ncftpget to retry 99 times and eventually it let me start the download after which it was quite fast actually.
voidmain:
quote:Originally posted by TheQuirk:
Heh. I don't think that's a *legal* download. SuSE 8.0 pro? They're crazy to release it as a download!
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They are? Well they certainly would never had a chance of having me as a customer without a free download. RedHat has been giving out free downloads since the beginning. And they don't have any plans of stopping that. In fact SuSe is the *only* distro I know of (besides Lindows) that doesn't allow a free download. I just have CD1 downloaded now, haven't yet tried to install it but will do that now.
shuiend:
i always figured that it was not frr to download b/c of all the extra programs it came with. Star Office you now have to buy but it comes with that so i was like i am getting that to tha is part of the price. also SuSE seems to come with alot more goodies then Red Hat. it being 7 cd's and all. when i was done installing it i did not need to install any other programs it came with them all while Red Hat i had to go online and get several
Ice-9:
quote: In fact SuSe is the *only* distro I know of (besides Lindows) that doesn't allow a free download.
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SuSE doens't offer the traditionnal Iso download that's correct, however you can do an ftp install from their site.
The reason for it is that this way they are always able to offer the latest OS/files for download.
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