[KLUG Members] re: SuSE disks yet?

[Bruce Smith]

> >I just went to CompUSA on 28th street and picked up a retail package of 
> >> 9.1 Personal.  They have professional as well, but it's more expensive 
> >> by quite a bit.  about $40 for Personal and $80 for Pro, as I recall.
> >
> >SuSE 9.1 Personal is available for download, free.
> >
> I can never seem to find downloads of the ISO's except for the boot 
> disk.  I have installed  SUSE 9.1 personal over the Net a couple of 
> times, but it's a long process across 256K DSL.  (Admittedly, it's a 
> much nicer process than a previous version that I never got to work.)  
> It was worth $40 to not have to sit through that any more times.  I'll 
> happily use YAST to get the rest of the stuff via FTP, but the base 
> installation is awfully nice to have on local media.

The advantage of buying the boxed set (at least on professional) is it
comes with a lot of nice things on the CD/DVD that you have to manually
download and install after installing from the a free CD.  Like Acrobat,
Realplayer, Java, Flash, ....   That makes it worth the price IMO.

 - BS