Wednesday, August 10, 2005

OpenSuse.org is up

I am considering downloading Suse 9.3, but the size of the download makes me pause -- five 700 MB ISOs. At the current bandwidth rates, it would cost me something like Rs. 2000. But one difference now is that I have five independent ISO's to download, so it's not the all-or-nothing-proposition as used to be the case when there was just one huge DVD ISO to download. I also don't have a DVD writer, so there's not much I could have done with the ISO even if I had downloaded it successfully.

One alternative is to scout for folks here in India who ship these things for a few hundred rupees. I have a feeling 9.3 will become available shortly via this route (if it's not available already, that is).