Re: Novell & Open Source

[Eric Jensen]

You can get ISO of the eval version there, but not the full.  Only 
option for that is the FTP install, which from what I remember wasn't 
the smoothest process I've experienced with Linux.  Especially if you 
have a NIC that isn't all that supported and takes a bit of work to get 
up and running.  I even tried running a local FTP with the same 
directory structure with no luck.  Getting full non-eval ISOs for Suse 
is not easy, I remember having to search all over for a torrent file.  
From what I gather, this has been a huge negative for moving over to 
Suse for a lot of people.  Doing a several gig install over your 
internet connection doesn't sit well with a lot of people.  Installs can 
take long enough as it is, especially if you are the type who like to do 
the easy full install.

After I did get Suse installed, I was not impressed.  It was pretty and 
user friendly, but horribly unstable.  Out of all the Distros I tried 
over that week (Debian, Slackware, Fedora, Mandrake, and a few others I 
forget) Suse was by far the most unstable.

I was very excited for Novell to run a project like this, but they are 
making it hard to stay excited.

Eric
Bradley Dorner wrote:
Novell does offer a free download of SuSE. Try the
following link. They actually have a live eval that
runs on the DVD, or you could install off of an ftp
site, or download an iso image.
http://www.novell.com/products/linuxprofessional/downloads/suse_linux/index.html
Brad
--- Barry Roberts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
 

On Tue, Feb 15, 2005 at 10:24:21AM -0700, Lars
Rasmussen wrote:
   

On Tue, 15 Feb 2005 10:20:04 -0700, Gabriel
     

Gunderson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
   

Novell is putting its code where its mouth is. 
       

I'm really starting to
   

like what I see.  For example:
Novell Launches Open Source Collaboration Server
       

Initiative
   

http://www.novell.com/news/press/archive/2005/02/pr05014.html
 

This will fill a big void it the open source
       

world.
   

Now if they could only ship a version of SuSE
       

that had a current Gnome
   

desktop and installed stuff in the right
       

directories.
   

& didn't overload the server when you ran the
     

yast2 backup module as
   

superuser...
     

And a version I could give to friends/newbies.
I really would like to support the home team, but
most people I
convince to try linux aren't ready to buy it, they
want to try it
first.  And since Fedora and Debian are ok with
that, that's what I
give people.
But I guess that isn't the market Novell is going
for.  Seemed to work
well for RedHat, though.
Barry Roberts
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