Is 10.2 need licence from Novell?

[filippos]

Is 10.2 need licence from Novell?

[devils casper]

you dont need licence for OpenSuSe. its free to download and use.





Casper

[Thrillhouse]

Not too long ago, Novell introduced their version of Linux which was based on SuSE. The regular, single-user license cost $50. However, their version was based on openSuSE, which is still freely available. You can download the free openSuSE from here: http://en.opensuse.org/Welcome_to_openSUSE.org

[filippos]

Are there any differences between them?

[cruetset1080]

filippos,

Just follow Thrillhouse's suggestion. Do not delay with irrelevancies.

For more information on openSUSE 10.2 I suggest that you visit:-

http://www.softwareinreview.com/cms/content/view/60/


Also note that in openSUSE 10.2 there is a reported bug (Bugzilla number 229231) which causes yast2 to hang in the printer database, usually at 4%/40%.
The good news is that this bug has been fixed by means of:-

yast2-printer-2.14.17-6

which is available as an rpm download from:-

http://download.opensuse.org/distrib...rce/suse/i586/

After clicking on this download select "Open with zen" and give the root password.
Then go to YaST2, give the root password again, select Hardware then Printer.
You may wish to delete the existing default printer before selecting Add and giving your printer's details. You can do a test print during this procedure.

Don't concern yourself about the printer bug at the moment, just get on with downloading and installing one of the finest Linux operating systems around.
Good luck.

[filippos]

Do I need to read all these?

[Thrillhouse]

Do I need to read all these?

All what? If you want to try SuSE, you can download the ISO's from the link that has been provided. Novell's version of SuSE is not all that different from openSuSE (SLED, Novell's version, is really just a tweaked GUI and a few additional administrative options which can be easily accomplished in openSuSE). In my opinion, it's not really necessary to pay the license fee for SLED/SLES unless you're the System Administrator of a large Linux network who needs some consistency in their network. My advice is to try openSuSE first and see if you like it before you pay the fee for an operating system that isn't really that much more advanced than the free one. Still, my opinions are rooted in the fact that I only used beta versions of SLED (never actually paid for the license) but nonetheless, I haven't heard too much raving from the SLED community to warrant a $50 fee.

[filippos]

Thrillhouse,
Thank you for your opinion.
I'm not a new user of SuSE and it's one of my favourites and I'm glad to hear that it's nearly the same with the Novell's version.
I'll definitely try it.
Filippos

PS
Has anyone upgrade from 9.3 or 9.2?

[Flight_118]

I don't recommend upgrading, sometimes it works... sometimes it doesn't... It's better to do a fresh install.

Ofcourse, if you have your Home dir on a seperate partition (which is smart to do), you should leave that one alone. Suse 10.2 will pick it up at the installation and use it.

[filippos]

Thanks,
I have 3 SuSE 9.2, 9.3 and 10.0 "boxes" tuned and I'd like to upgrade them, cause it's hard to find updates for 9.x

Any help?

Filippos