[lug] SuSE vs. RedHat distro differences
Deva Samartha
blug-nospam at mtbwr.net
Tue Jan 30 11:45:40 MST 2001
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:
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