download suse 8?

[thekemp]

where can i ftp suse 8? or do we have to buy it now

[CMonster]

AFAIK - SuSE doesn't offer downloads of ISOs, however it may be possible to do an ftp-install, typically SuSE only offers a "demo" ISO image for download.

Just for the information of other readers:

No person or company which redistributes Linux is under any obligation to do so for free. While no license fee may be charged for GNU-Linux itself, and redistribution must include access to source code, a person or company is perfectly within their rights to charge a fee for the redistribution, packaging, manuals, documentaion, and /or support. The GPL in no way obligates a company that sells a Package of Linux to offer it for free download.

--still we think it nice if they do!

[jkrohn]

You can download the directoy structure I believe and install off of that, but beware that it is 4 or 5 gigs I believe.

Jkrohn

[thekemp]

oh, i thought this might be the case, i downloaded the live eval and i love the new kde3 so i may upgrade to kde 3 on my mandrake . i have a box which i am trying out various flavours of linux then when i find the one i love apart from mandrake and that works properly with all my hardware then i will buy the box set. i got stung a while back when i paid for mandrake 7.2 .
cheers for the help

[dunbar]

Try Arch Linux?
http://archlinux.sourceforge.net/

Small ISO, with just the guts. FWIW.

[Undeadlord]

Now this doesn't go over well with me ... I have never used SuSe Linux .. but if you can't download it .. doesn't that kind of defeat the spirit of the GPL? Maybe its just me ...


Undeadlord

[Scott Tiger]

I'd love to see what SuSe looks like; I think they have an incredible web site, but since I can't try it out for free (aside from the demo, which isn't really trying IMO) I'm not going to spend any money on it. I will be purchasing a boxed version of RH 7.3 though if it goes on sale for $29 like CMonster says it does. I found a boxed version of RH 5 on a shelf at work and there's quite a bit of stuff that comes with the boxed versions. Think it'll be worth it to me.....