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Help Needed Immediately Linux HELP HELP HELP LINUX SUSE SUSE

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naveenchandran Original post #1
Oct 10, 2004 at 8:59 PM
Help me I have previously used suse 9.1 personal edition and did not find any development tools

so after a week i told my friend to get Suse 9.1 PROFESSIONAL edition and I paid for it. He got me a main first cd containing SUSE (Copied it to a CD)
But I find no difference between the personal and professional! both I found it to be same!

Are the development tools present in other 4 CD's or have i got cheated??????

Also I did not find anything like personal or professional on any readme or in the os HELP ME!

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GNUrag
GNUrag #2
Oct 11, 2004 at 6:48 PM
In almost all distros, first CD is generally the install CD which can get your system, along with a desktop manager running.... I haven't used suse pro, but its quite possible that devl tools are there in second CD or maybe third... you can't blame your friend unless you have personally checked the contents of other 3 CDs...

btw: which development tools are you talking about ? almost all distros install gcc, perl, python, by default from first CD itself.... glade/qt designer might be on second/third CD...

as for difference between personal and professional versions of distributions go, there's not much difference between them.... since GNOME will be GNOME only, no matter what distro or flavour it is....

Difference mainly lies in minor version number differences, and capabilities of the underlying kernel in personal and professional editions....

Personal editions mainly bundle eye-candy stuffs like media players and diffferent desktop environments... where as professional versions bundle an improved kernel plus lots of services/daemons....
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sniper #3
Oct 11, 2004 at 9:57 PM
Ohh..so ur GNUrag...ppl are killing me on yahoo...I have keep screeming im ANUrag aka sniper.

humm...lemme check..Wohooo...HUGE list of softwares. i dunno if they are dev tools, they all seem to be softwares to me, on CD2 to CD5. all are like xyz.rpm files. open office etc etc...hey i see perl...no man it does include dev stuff. install it na.
GNUrag
GNUrag #4
Oct 12, 2004 at 7:43 PM
sniper said:
Ohh..so ur GNUrag...ppl are killing me on yahoo...I have keep screeming im ANUrag aka sniper.

Oh... goodness... so you too are Anurag ? nice meeting you...
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IG #5
Oct 12, 2004 at 11:07 PM
@ sniper:do any of the cds have the kernel source???
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sniper #6
Oct 13, 2004 at 12:08 AM
cant tell ya man...all files are in .rpm format and they all either seem like softwares or manuals or games, and the list is HUGE about 1200+ in each cd. I dont think there are any kernel source, IM NOT SURE.
GNUrag
GNUrag #7
Oct 13, 2004 at 4:28 PM
sniper said:
cant tell ya man...all files are in .rpm format and they all either seem like softwares or manuals or games,

Go to RPMS directory on the CD, give this command ( $ ls -l kernel-source*.rpm ) and post its output here
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IG #8
Oct 13, 2004 at 11:39 PM
*www.roseindia.net/linux/suse_professional.shtml

do u think i should go in for this?
will it ease my pain or shld i just wait for pcq to get back 2 me??

or should i go in for fedora core 2 as in this
*www.roseindia.net/linux/fedoracore2cds.shtml
if so which ones should i buy?

pls hlp me!! pls pls pls...i wanna get this done with b4 i have to start working :(
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sniper #9
Oct 14, 2004 at 12:44 AM
GNUrag im using winXP.

IG should i upload the catalogue of the 5 CDs. i hope u have WhereIsIt. that way u could have a look at the cd yourself.
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IG #10
Oct 14, 2004 at 9:10 AM
sniper: dont have it..is it freeware and downloadable?
pls do upload though.
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sniper #11
Oct 14, 2004 at 12:35 PM
Its downloadable but its not freeware, but that shouldn't be a problem, should it :wink:

WhereIsIt? 3.62 (build 820)
where362.zip, 3561 KB, August 20th 2004, ZIP compressed
Code:
*download1.whereisit-soft.com/where362.zip
*download2.whereisit-soft.com/where362.zip

get other mirrors and plugins and stuff here
Code:
*www.whereisit-soft.com/download.html
*download.pods.lv/WhereIsIt/

This is a must have software to catalogue and manage ur cds.

the catalogue SUSE9.RAR - 73kb
Code:
*www.freewebs.com/andr/Files/SUSE9.RAR

GNUrag, u too have a look if u can.
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IG #12
Oct 14, 2004 at 3:38 PM
thanks dude..