SuSE 9

[CMonster]

Last night I installed SuSE 9 on my laptop, and was supprized to see that it supports my "it-will-never-be-supported-in-Linux" winmodem. Cool.. now all I need is a dialup account ...

Gimp 2 (1.3) will take some getting used to...

I wasn't going to buy SuSE 9, but my son was buying it anyway so I chipped in...

Nothing really revolutionary here (except maybe the 2.6 kernel beta), they could easily have called it SuSE 8.3

[tarpat1]

Slightly Off-topic-Slightly On-topic question, which disk is the live eval disc?

[Lostman]

I also installed Susu, but 8.2 Pro. Spend $50 on it. Installed off of the DVD (nice feature). Only thing was it wouldn't detect my network card. So untill I can figure out how to get that running I went back to Mandrake 9.1.

[DanGrease]

I am also interested and curious to try out this version of a great distro. Although I am still dissapointed they dont want to have free versions of their product.

dan

[Lostman]

I don't mind paying for it. $50 for the pro suite is better then $300 for anything that M$ would sell.

[CMonster]

If you don't mind paying $50, order the

SuSE 9 Professional Upgrade Version -it's the same as the Pro version but without the manuals see here

You can get it 1/2 price by splitting the cost with a buddy.... 3,4,5 buddies... just imagine.

I'm excited to get started but I hardly have the time these days... I've had SuSE 8.2 since it came out and still haven't upgraded from SuSE 8.1 on this rig... everything works...

[crouse]

Found 9.0 proffesional for $72 here http://www.linuxvoodoo.com/store/pro...s_id=333&ref=2

[Tuvok]

CMonster,

SuSE is expanding more hardware support; I read somewhere that SuSE 9.0 provides support for 50% of all winmodems. SuSE 7.3 was the only and last box I ever bought; but I am planning to support SuSE by buying the new box after I test it through ftp-install. If I am going to buy it, I will get it from Amazon which usually sells it cheaper (at least 20%). Currently, SuSE 9.0 Pro retails for $64.99 plus free shipping: Here

[CMonster]

SuSE 9 Pro comes with an amazing selection of software. I can't wait to get this installed on some other systems. Plenty of multimedia apps for both sound and video, I wonder how well some of these will work.


BTW - The "Upgrade" version of SuSE 9 Pro does NOT require a previous version of SuSE -get it directly from SuSE's online store for $49 +shipping. It has all the CDs and DVD, just no paper manuals --we don't need no stinking manuals

[lynchmob]

I tried the LiveEval CD;pretty nice-saw all my hardware.Takes you through a sort of mock install so you can verify language,kbd and other things.Booted up fine an surfed the net without having to do a thing(cable).Just had to get rid of 3 files,afterwards,that it left in my Mandrake / partition:
suselive.900(zipped)
suselive.txt
suselive.usr
Thanks for the link,CMonster.I may give 9 a try as it looks like I wont be getting MDK 9.2.Dont see much point.
lynch