[HLUG] Anyone used SUSE disks that were given out at some meeting?

[Julian Robbins]

Benjamin Weber wrote:

>Andrew,
>
>If it's the same as the trial you can download from the novell website it will 
>continue to function, but you can't get updates beyond the trial period, same 
>for novell linux desktop, so you can either manually patch it, buy a support 
>subscription from novell, or use plain suse linux rather than SLES. 
>
>Benji
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Or you could go for Ubuntu, That way you get at least two years worth of 
free updates (or 5 years if you pay), and you get really excellent 
hardware detection and network config tools too.

Julian

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>On Thursday 01 September 2005 19:28, Andrew Hodgson wrote:
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>>Hi,
>>
>>
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>>I am upgrading a server at work to SUSE 9.0 enterprise from the freeby
>>disks that Novell had given out when they merged with Suse.  The
>>question is - does anyone know if these are trialware or will they
>>continue to function?  I have already done a lot of work on the system
>>(mainly compiling/fixing Qmail etc), and don't want the system to burn
>>out over 90 days.  All the suggestions I have seen re trialware
>>identification have seen that this probably isn't trialware, though I
>>can't download any updates from the Yast component without a
>>username/password obviously going to cost me money.
>>
>>
>>
>>Anyone any thoughts?  I really would like to use Debian, but Suse just
>>detects everything out of the box, and does install a good mix of
>>compilation tools (i.e, everything seems to compile well), and there is
>>a GUI interface for when other people need to do the network config etc
>>on the system.
>>
>>
>>
>>Thanks.
>>
>>Andrew.
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