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Novell: Fighting Microsoft's FUD machine (ZDNet)

Posted Jun 23, 2004 22:57 UTC (Wed) by gurulabs (subscriber, #10753)
In reply to: Novell: Fighting Microsoft's FUD machine (ZDNet) by philips
Parent article: Novell: Fighting Microsoft's FUD machine (ZDNet)

You are woefully misinformed.

SUSE has always been much more closed than Red Hat. Novell seems to be turning that around to some extent (GPLd YaST, GPLd Evolution Connector).

* No publically accessible Bugzilla
* No publically accessible SRPMs for errata updates to their Enterprise product
* No publically SRPMs for SLES8 (there are for United Linux v1.0)

* No public beta tests
* No publically accessible ISOs

All of these are (still to this day) a "Yes" with Red Hat.

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Novell: Fighting Microsoft's FUD machine (ZDNet)

Posted Jun 23, 2004 23:13 UTC (Wed) by tuxituk (guest, #19547) [Link]

Ignoring the Live CDs which are ISOs, an install ISO is publically accessible for 9.1, unless I am seeing things?

http://www.mirror.ac.uk/sites/ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/i386/9.1-personal-iso/

Install that and apt4rpm, and you can then install any RPMS from the ftp version of 9.1, so the personal version is all you need.

Novell: Fighting Microsoft's FUD machine (ZDNet)

Posted Jun 23, 2004 23:23 UTC (Wed) by gurulabs (subscriber, #10753) [Link]

Your franken-install is neither the personal nor professional version (the ftp version isn't the same as the professional).