[RLUG] Suse

[William Roddy]

Jay Schaffer wrote:
>
> On Aug 4, 2005, at 8:26 AM, William Roddy wrote:
>
>> Hello,
>>
>> I suspect that most of you have heard that Suse is opening up its 
>> operating system, after the fashion of the Fedora Core project but, 
>> in case you hadn't, I thought I'd drop a note, as I understand some 
>> of you use Suse.
>>
>> It's now widely reported that they are trying to gain community 
>> support and make the system easier to deploy. They will have, at some 
>> point in the future (not up yet) a Web site -- www.opensuse.com -- as 
>> home for the new project.
>>
>> William
>
> ##### SuSE has always been freely distributed. I just downloaded the 
> 5-CD set of the latest version of SuSE 9.3 Professional a week or two 
> ago. It does not include some items they have to pay a license fee 
> for, but everything else is there.
>
> So does this mean they're going to stop the free distribution?
>
> Maybe I don't understand what the change is going to be.
>
> -- "Jay"
>
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Yes, I've downloaded that, too. This is a new aspect. Here's a URL that 
might help. It was widely reported that day, incl. NewsForge.

http://www.computerworld.com/softwaretopics/os/story/0,10801,103660,00.html

William