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Marrea · Posted: Sun Sep 25, 2005 6:19 pm Post subject: SuSE 10

Just noticed that Amazon are advertising this (pre-order) for £35.99 (£4.00 off the RRP). This seems very cheap, in view of the fact they are charging £58.49 for 9.3 (or £41.39 for the Upgrade version of same). Is there going to be just the one version of 10, ie not full and upgrade versions as has been the case previously?

I've only just got round to trying 9.3, which I installed yesterday from the DVD which came with the current Linux Magazine (£5.99 - slight difference in price from Amazon; as far as I can tell the only things missing are "support" and manuals). The first thing that foxed me, when I was trying to mount a floppy disk, was this subfs business. Apparently you don't mount removable media any more - you just change to the relevant directory in /media. No doubt I shall be finding lots of other little thing which are different from 9.2.

Gordon · Posted: Sun Sep 25, 2005 7:56 pm Post subject: RE: SuSE 10

Have a look at

http://www.novell.com/coolsolutions/feature/16017.html

There does seem to be a large drop in price from SUSE 9.3 to 10

Gurgs
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Rhakios · Posted: Sun Sep 25, 2005 8:28 pm Post subject: RE: SuSE 10

I did my amazon pre-order a couple of nights ago when Novell announced they were accepting pre-orders for 10. If Novell's dumb ordering system had actually let me specify a different delivery address (as it said it would) then I would have ordered direct, but there we go Rolling Eyes

Edit: There's quite a difference between LM's SuSE 9.3 and the official install disc, nearly 2000 packages in all, the gods only know what they left out (or anyone who want to compare the list of packages line-by-line).
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Marrea · Posted: Sun Sep 25, 2005 9:10 pm Post subject: Re: RE: SuSE 10

Marrea · Posted: Sun Sep 25, 2005 9:11 pm Post subject: Re: RE: SuSE 10

dth · Joined: Thu Apr 07, 2005 5:44 pm Posts: 66

Rhakios - I see what you mean about the Suse ordering system!!

Wasn't gonna bother with 10 (just stick with 9.3) but thought what the hell.

Marrea · Posted: Thu Sep 29, 2005 10:18 am Post subject: Re: RE: Re: RE: SuSE 10

dth · Joined: Thu Apr 07, 2005 5:44 pm Posts: 66

Marrea - You are right.

I might not get 10.1 instead and just wait for 10.2 - but maybe not!

Rhakios · Posted: Thu Sep 29, 2005 5:55 pm Post subject: RE: Re: RE: Re: RE: SuSE 10

dth, have you noticed they have released another set of alphas for 10.1 already!? Everything just moves so fast, even 10.2 will be here before you know it. Wink

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dth · Joined: Thu Apr 07, 2005 5:44 pm Posts: 66

Rhakios - Strangely enough I was was looking at the roadmap today.

Might have to change my order order from 10.0 to 10.2! It is always a game of catch up with Linux (which I love) I remember by the time 9.3 got to the shops (with kde 3.4) kde 3.4.1 had been released.

dth · Joined: Thu Apr 07, 2005 5:44 pm Posts: 66

See it has already happened with kde 3.5 beta being released!