Where can i get SuSE 8.2??

[Zig]

Is SuSE 8.2 pro in the net. Where can i download it. Thanks.

[Dolda2000]

Have you tried SuSE's web site?

[Zig]

In the web site is only a live eval version. Is the complete version available on the net??

[gzunk]

I don't think so - at least not officially. There's some blurb on the web site that says they cannot distribute it because of the licensing conditions on some of the non-free software it includes.

[craig_mcd]

You can find it if you look around (ie warez sites and p2p networks).

[mtswall]

There are several guys on ebay selling cdroms with distro's - I just bid $1.50 for a 5 cd Suse 8.2 pro set. S&H was $6.


It isn't free, but alot less than paying retail!

[revolve]

Actually, they have the full 8.2 distro available, albeit without some of the software packages that aren't free/open source software.

ftp://mirror.mcs.anl.gov/pub/ftp.suse.com/i386/8.2/

I believe that's one of the ftp links to download it.

[craig_mcd]

They dont provide iso images, just ftp installs. The only iso images are for their live evaluations.
I think they are just trying to get people to buy their product by ensuring that iso images arent available.

[Dolda2000]

Oh yeah, I forgot that SuSE includes a lot of non-free stuff. Sorry about that, then. Is it only I, though, who think that it feels kind of wrong to use a Linux distro that isn't 100% free (note free as in FSF's defintion, not as in gratis)?

[gzunk]

I don't mind using a non 100% free distribution, even though I admire the FSF and their stance. To put it bluntly I don't really have a choice unless I want to cut my nose off to spite my face since I have an nForce based motherboard and an nVidia graphics card, for which the drivers aren't free.

I'm also a professional software developer that would like to get paid at some point in time, and to be quite honest - support isn't the most interesting of jobs...