Suse / installfests - Re: [TriLUG] article: N&O Home Users Leap to Linux

[Jeremy Portzer]

On Mon, 2003-11-24 at 10:44, Jeremy Portzer wrote:
> On Sun, 2003-11-23 at 03:53, al johnson wrote:
> >  The second question is related to this one: are we going to offer Suse 9.0 
> > as an option at our next installfest?? --- Al johnson
> 
> Well, we can certainly try to help folks install it if they bring their
> own copy.  However, distributions like Suse and Red Hat Enterprise Linux
> do not make their ISOs (CD images) or install trees freely available. 

Well, apparently I have egg on my face about the ability to download
Suse.  That has changed as of today. 
http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/wlg/3997

>  One of the problems with Suse is that not all of the
> configuration tools are Open Source; unlike Red Hat which writes its
> software with the GNU GPL.
> 

I don't think this has been resolved though.

--Jeremy

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