[lug] SuSE vs. RedHat distro differences

[Deva Samartha]

AFAIKS, the whole distribution is on their ftp site under (7.0):
ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/i386/7.0/suse/

You should be able to do a recursive download from there.  I have never 
done it, so I don't know how an install from a downloaded directory tree 
would work.  Diskspace could be an issue too - they have 6 CD's - 600 M 
each, so you may be facing 3.5 G of work space.

When it comes out, I think that they put their latest distribution with a 
delay to the ftp site - at least, there is no 7.1 directory there right now.

When I do an update under SuSE's Yast over the internet, it preens through 
all my files and claims to check the version number or 3000+ packages and 
then updates them. All via anonymous ftp, so all their updates are on ftp 
and should be accessible.

There is a "update" or "current" directory somewhere.

How  you could build a system by downloading over the internet, I don't know.
I consider the effort of doing it that way to cost more than the $ 60 for 
an upgrade CD set.

I think it all boils down to $$$'s - I think they may need to make a buck 
on selling their distributions. What was the RH price? I remember seeing 
something like $ 180, which may not be a upgrade but for Linux I think it's 
steep.

Have you got your ssh running yet?

Samartha

At 10:38 AM 1/30/01 -0700, you wrote:
>I perceive a key difference between SuSE and RedHat.  I was used to download
>everything I ever needed over the Internet.  SuSE seems a lot more CD focused.
>There is only one CD (their evaluation CD) available for download.  Useful
>utilities like openssh and more are on the "second CD", which you need to 
>buy at
>the store.
>
>Is this perception correct or am I missing something here?  At least 
>rpmfind.net
>doesn't seem to list many SuSE rpms at all.  So it seems to me that you 
>need to
>either rebuild those RPMS if you can or buy the CDs.
>
>Ferdinand
>
>Alan Robertson wrote: