[Preston] forum

[Paul]

No it is not! That is the main reason why SuSe doesn't distribute iso's.
http://www.suse.de/en/private/support/licenses/yast.html


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From: preston-bounces at mailman.lug.org.uk
[mailto:preston-bounces at mailman.lug.org.uk]On Behalf Of Garry Taylor
Sent: Thursday, November 13, 2003 3:35 PM
To: preston at mailman.lug.org.uk
Subject: RE: [Preston] forum


So Yast is the admin tool used under SuSE. Is this tool not under GPL.

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>>> aorb84 at dsl.pipex.com 11/11/2003 09:13:55 >>>
Quoting Garry Taylor <TaylorG at southport-college.ac.uk>:

> :)
> I am also thinking of moving to SuSE (from Mandrake) because Novel
own
> it.
> What is all this about, do we really expect to get an improvement in
> the product, or just a huge price hike?
>
> I now want to move to SuSE but apart from Novel I can't think why.
Is
> anybody else thinking of doing this?
>
I have just moved from Mandrake to Suse mainly because I have just
changed to a
laptop and MDK wouldn't run on it.(known problem on google, booting the
kernel
-OK then freezes). I tried RH9 before Suse but found I didn't find my
way around
as easily as Suse. It was just before the  Novell announcement so I
can't claim
to be influenced by that. All in I am very happy with Suse. It only
took a few
minutes to familiarise myself with it although I do miss URPMI :o)

I did find it a pain that Suse don't publish ISOs for download, you
have to do a
FTP install and currently having a frog modem I ended up messing around
going
through my server when I really just wanted to connect directly. The
other
choice is to find someone with Suse isos on a ftp server but they are
few and
far between!(and of course this is slightly iffy as YAST is subject to
discussion as to the legality of distributing it).

Ian


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