Suse 9.3 pro

[mufasa]

Hi, i am looking for a copy of suse93 pro. Can any help me? don't have the bucks to buy the retail version books and all.

[andres101]

do you know how to use google?

[peered95]

hehe...bit mean (i think) rasberry.co.za is good but it costs moola - otherwise d/l it

[fergus]

do you know how to use google?

Suse 9.3 isn't available for download yet afaik. Should be in a few months.

[bb_matt]

Yes it is :-

http://www.raspberry.co.za/raspberry/OpenSourceCDs/

It will be expensive though (relatively speaking) - R310 + R70 shipping.

[fergus]

Yes it is :-

http://www.raspberry.co.za/raspberry/OpenSourceCDs/

Thats not for download. They ship it to you.

What I was referring to was Suse's policy for new releases. At first they only allow you to get the latest version by buying it. After about six months they put it up on public ftp for whoever wants to download. So at present, since its only a few months since the release, 9.3 is not publically available from Suse for download, only for purchase from a reseller.

The only place I know of where you can download it at the moment is off bittorrent. Unfortunately thats not an option for cos I've got iburst.

btw bb_matt I've just installed Slackware 10.1 on my desktop to check it out. Looks pretty good

[bb_matt]

Yeah - slack is great !

If you like KDE, I highly advise installing the 3.4 release - it's an improvement over the 3.2 ? that ships with slack.

I fiddled with Konstruct, which is supposed to make it easy to install the latest release, but I couldn't get the damn thing to read from a store folder - it kept wanting to connect to the net, so I downloaded all the sources, extracted them and wrote a little bash script :-

#!/bin/bash
cd arts-1.4.0
./configure && make && make install
cd ../
cd kdelibs-3.4.0
./configure && make && make install
cd ../
cd kdebase-3.4.0
./configure && make && make install
cd ../
cd kdeaccessibility-3.4.0
./configure && make && make install
cd ../
cd kdeaddons-3.4.0
./configure && make && make install
cd ../
cd kdeadmin-3.4.0
./configure && make && make install
cd ../
cd kdeartwork-3.4.0
./configure && make && make install
cd ../
cd kdebindings-3.4.0
./configure && make && make install
cd ../
cd kdeedu-3.4.0
./configure && make && make install
cd ../
cd kdegames-3.4.0
./configure && make && make install
cd ../
cd kdegraphics-3.4.0
./configure && make && make install
cd ../
cd kdemultimedia-3.4.0
./configure && make && make install
cd ../
cd kdenetwork-3.4.0
./configure && make && make install
cd ../
cd kdetoys-3.4.0
./configure && make && make install
cd ../

3 hours later and it was compiled without a hitch !
A lot better than having to attend to the whole process - just left it running while I was on my windows box.
That's the beauty of slackware 10.1, along with it's speed of course !


EDIT: Oh yeah - about the Suse 9.3 - if you have enough bandwidth (which none of us really do) it'll be available as a torrent somewhere. I'm not sure of the legality of it tho ?

[fergus]

If you like KDE, I highly advise installing the 3.4 release - it's an improvement over the 3.2 ? that ships with slack.

I dunno, the one that comes with Slackware (3.3.4) seems fine to me. Is there any significant difference in 3.4?

EDIT: Oh yeah - about the Suse 9.3 - if you have enough bandwidth (which none of us really do) it'll be available as a torrent somewhere. I'm not sure of the legality of it tho ?

I actually don't know about the legality of it either. I'm not too familiar with the Suse license. Its probably illegal to redistribute until they release it publically themselves. They probably change the license or something

[bb_matt]

I'm not sure how significant it is - it feels a bit snappier and there's bug fixes - I'm busy using it now posting this, as I haven't booted into X for some time (only been doing terminal stuff for the last few weeks)

It was hailed as a significant release, so if you feel up to downloading a whole bunch of source files, go for it ! - actually, it's not that bad - under 200mb

I've turned off all eye candy, as I'm running slack on a 1333 AMD and an old TNT2 card with 256meg DDR266 - it runs brilliantly.

Dropline Gnome 2.8 on the other hand was terrible !

[fergus]

I also checked out Ubuntu 5.0.3. Its looking very nice as well. I couldn't get it to display in anything other than 640x480 although I didn't spend too much time on it. If anyone in Cape Town wants a copy I don't mind burning it for you.

On a similar note does anyone here belong to a Linux user group and if so whats it like?

[bb_matt]

Nope - never been in a LUG - my guess is it would be a bunch of geeks getting together to consume beer and talk about kernel optimisations, desktops and computers

Aside from the beer bit, there's too many other things I'm interested in !
At some point in my life, I need to shed all my hobbies and focus on just one !

Linux has become a means to an end for me - all my server requirements.
I've slowed up on dabbling on the desktop, because I've had to become brutally honest that it doesn't work for my career in terms of designing websites and multimedia.

I can't run flash, fireworks, photoshop, dreamweaver, fontographer - etc. etc. etc. etc.

So it's more a side hobby than anything. I keep up to speed with things out of a sincere hope that eventually the apps I need will either be ported, or open source equivalents (of the same quality) will be created.