Anonymous web server - may enjoy downloading the Mandrake Cooker (www.mandrakelinux.com/en/ cookerdevel.php3),
may enjoy downloading the Mandrake Cooker (www.mandrakelinux.com/en/ cookerdevel.php3), which is the development ( beta ) version. Most people, though, are better off sticking with the main version of Mandrake, becausebetas, in general, are more full of bugs hence, the term beta test. Starting off with SuSEThe SuSE ( SOO-za , www.suse.com) company and Linux distribution were founded in 1992 and were purchased by Novell (www.novell.com) in 2004. The distribution is named after a German acronym for Software undSystementwicklung(Software and System Development). One SuSE claim tofame is its international support (most major distributions provide a level ofsupport for users around the globe, but some have better language integra- tion for particular groups than others; SuSE understandably excels in theGerman and western European space). SuSE is primarily a commercial distribution, though it has a limited freeoption that I discuss in the section About the various SuSE versions. Ratherthan compare a limited free version against other people s full versions, Iwalk you through the installation of the full SuSE Linux Professional 9.2. Also, while most distributions have one form or another of integrated configura- tion setup, SuSE s YaST is particularly extensive, and is equally so without aGUI an unfortunate rarity. The manuals that come with the boxed versionsare also nice and thick, serving as a nice add-on for this book, online help, user forums, and so on. A Live CD containing SuSE 9.2 with KDE is included as an ISO file within thedistrosfolder on the DVD-ROM that comes with this book. No install isrequired, so you can just burn the ISO onto a CD-ROM, put the CD into yourdrive, and boot your machine to experience this version of SuSE Linux. Installing SuSEThe SuSE Linux 9.2 Professional boxed set comes with two thick manuals, five CDs, and two DVDs (for those who want to install instead from DVD). InChapter 2, I mention that SuSE can resize your existing Windows partitions, soyou don t need to do this step ahead of time. If you re using the version of SuSEincluded with this book, then you don t need to go through this installationprocedure. I cover it here for those who purchased the full version of SuSE. To install this distribution: 1.Put either CD 1 or DVD 1 (the one on the left) in your CD-ROM or DVD- ROM drive. If you re using the DVDs, make sure that Side A is facing up. 78Part I:Getting Your Feet Wet
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