| By Linux News Desk | Article Rating: |
|
| March 20, 2004 12:00 AM EST | Reads: |
23,392 |
The week's most useful address is arguably ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/i386/live-eval-9.0 - this is how you can download it to a CD and start SUSE LINUX from there without changing the partioning of your hard disk before using it.
Novell's hope is that allowing people to see the new functionalities and the look-and-feel of SUSE LINUX before installing it will help drive adoption.
At the address above you can find the ISO of the so-called SUSE "Live Filesystem. Once written on a CD, says a note on the SUSE site, "It allows you to start SUSE LINUX from the CD, nevertheless with certain speed limitations."
Hopefully a LinuxWorld reader will post a review over the weekend.
Published March 20, 2004 Reads 23,392
Copyright © 2004 SYS-CON Media, Inc. — All Rights Reserved.
Syndicated stories and blog feeds, all rights reserved by the author.
More Stories By Linux News Desk
SYS-CON's Linux News Desk gathers stories, analysis, and information from around the Linux world and synthesizes them into an easy to digest format for IT/IS managers and other business decision-makers.
![]() |
Rob 03/23/04 06:59:22 PM EST | |||
I would give this thing a low grade, if I had to grade it. I think it's target group is for people that don't know if they should switch from Windows to Linux, so they won't know many, if any, commands for the terminal, and with what I experienced, they would need to do some terminal editing, or know shortcuts, either of which they wouldn't know if they were migrating from Windows. It loaded my video, sound, and keyboard properly, but it wouldn't get my USB mouse to work. Knoppix did automatically, so if someone was trying to figure out whether to use Linux or not, I would suggest Knoppix over SuSE's live eval. Plus, it takes a long time to load and boot, and it doesn't do so automatically. Maybe it works better for PS/2 mice, but for USB, it doesn't work well to start out with, and each time you would boot it, you'd have to keep making the same changes. I can't say how it works for USB keyboards, but if it's like the mice, you're screwed. |
||||
- Eighteen Open Source Content Management Systems (Part 3)
- OpenNebula: Open Source Cloud Management
- The Java Courseware
- Book Excerpt: Java Application Architecture
- Amazon Partners with Eucalyptus
- EMC Buys Pivotal Labs
- IBM Puts All Its Experience in a Box
- Hot Tech Firms at the 2012 DoDIIS Conference
- IBM Buying Varicent Software
- Eucalyptus Gets $30 Million C Round
- HTC Licenses Intertrust Patents, Takes 20% of SyncTV
- Cloud Office and Collaboration Productivity Applications Market Shares, Strategies, and Forecasts, Worldwide, 2012 to 2018
- Red Hat Executive Appointed to Technology Services Industry Association (TSIA) Support Services Advisory Board
- Eighteen Open Source Content Management Systems (Part 3)
- OpenNebula: Open Source Cloud Management
- The Java Courseware
- Book Excerpt: Java Application Architecture
- Amazon Partners with Eucalyptus
- EMC Buys Pivotal Labs
- IBM Puts All Its Experience in a Box
- Hot Tech Firms at the 2012 DoDIIS Conference
- IBM Buying Varicent Software
- Eucalyptus Gets $30 Million C Round
- HTC Licenses Intertrust Patents, Takes 20% of SyncTV
- Java Developer's Journal Exclusive: 2006 "JDJ Editors' Choice" Awards
- The i-Technology Right Stuff
- Creating Web Applications with the Eclipse Web Tools Project
- Eclipse Special: Remote Debugging Tomcat & JBoss Apps with Eclipse
- The Next Programming Models, RIAs and Composite Applications
- Where Are RIA Technologies Headed in 2008?
- SYS-CON Webcast: Eclipse IDE for Students, Useful Eclipse Tips & Tricks
- How to Bring Eclipse 3.1, J2SE 5.0, and Tomcat 5.0 Together
- Eclipse: The Story of Web Tools Platform 0.7
- The Top 250 Players in the Cloud Computing Ecosystem
- "Eclipse 3.0 is a Great Leap Forward," Says JDJ's Dudney
- Developing an Eclipse BIRT Report Item Extension























