[Glastonbury] suse 8.2

[Andrew M.A. Cater]

On Mon, Oct 13, 2003 at 11:02:49PM +0100, steve at fractalsoup.org wrote:
> i can create iso's from dvd as most dvd distro's have the "mkiso" 
> (aaaggh dos) option
> am happy to copy these for the group if required :-)

Please don't do this.  SUSE copyright subsists in SUSE products and
they contain proprietary code (especially YAST) which you should not 
copy.  There is a good reason why the magazines generally do not include 
SUSE - if they do, they include only the SUSE Live CD which is 
intended as a demo like Knoppix and will not install SUSE on your hard 
disk. SUSE can be installed by direct download from their main ftp 
site - but .iso's are _not_ available and are not intended to be 
copied. SUSE is _not_ fully free software, even if you credit the source.

> 
> also in answer to peter's message re : open office:-
> why does any business, educational establishment, governement office, 
> charity or hospital (and for that matter any ill-informed home user 
> buying their pc from some ms monopolised warehouse) still continue to 
> feed bill gates' empire with anchovies?

For people who already have Microsoft products, the upgrade cost is
minimal. Unfortunately, very few people ever have to pay the full 
cost for a Microsoft product - I think Office is now about GBP 430 
if you buy the Pro version and don't have older software which qualifies 
you for the upgrade option. Many people cannot comprehend using 
anything else. Office 2003 which will include a form of digital rights 
management for documents may make them think again.  Imagine the 
potential of read only documents that cannot be emailed or copied ... or 
documents which only one word processor can read at all ... or documents 
which are time bounded and delete themselves :(

> i just say feed the penguins with good olde bread and olivio
> keep healthy
> keep sane
> respect...
> 
> s~TV
> 
> 
> Alistair Parsons wrote:
> 
> >ive got Suse8.2 on DVD
> >no dvd burner tho
> >
> >i could lend nect week
> >
> >Alistair
> >
> >On Thursday 09 October 2003 20:33, Sean Miller wrote:
> > 
> >
> >>>Does anyone have copies of RH9 or SUsE 8.2 ?
> >>>We are having in IBM server IBM only supports these distros
> >>>     

On a server, you may find that IBM will only support RH Advanced Server 
2.1 / RH Enterprise Server/Workstation 3.0.  Frighten yourself with the
prices at www.linuxemporium.co.uk :(

The corresponding SUSE version is likely to be SUSE Enterprise Server 
version 7 at slightly lower cost (but still expensive in Linux 
distribution terms).

HTH,

Andy