SuSE Linux Professional 9.2

[Lee H]

Is now a free download and can be found at the following url if anyone is interested

ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/i386/

SuSE website

SUSE LINUX Professional 9.2 includes the following new features:

Mobility

Improved WLAN support and configuration with YaST (including Centrino)
New YaST configuration modules for IrDA and Bluetooth
Bluetooth support with autodetection for synchronization with Bluetooth cell phones and handhelds
Improved power management
Suspend-to-disk functionality
Enhanced data synchronization with the new KitchenSync and Kpilot
Graphical Desktop Environments

KDE 3.3
GNOME 2.6
Multimedia

RealPlayer
Versatile players amaroK and XMMS
Music manager JuK for large song collections
Movie players Kaffeine, Xine and Totem
Various synthesizers and drum computers
Ripping and recording tools
CD- and DVD-burning utility K3b burns data, music, and movies on CD, DVD and VCD
Video-editing software MainActor 5 (demo version)
Digital video recorder vdr, technology of tomorrow for the upcoming digital TV
Office Software

OpenOffice.org 1.1.3
Ability to read and write .doc, .xls and .ppt
PDF file creation with a mouse click
Integrated HTML editor and drawing application
Adobe Reader
TextMaker and PlanMaker
Quanta and Nvu Web-page development (HTML + wysiwyg)
Rekall—free graphical database application
Kontact and Novell Evolution—personal information managers
SEP Sesam backup software
Spell-checking
Graphics

Inkscape, the new vector drawing program
Photoshop alternative GIMP 2
Tux Paint (drawing application for kids and newcomers)
Scribus desktop publishing with a wide range of features
Development

KDevelop
Eclipse
Mono
Internet Networking

Browsers: Konqueror, Epiphany, Mozilla, Firefox, Opera and more
Automatic firewall activation
Kinternet to toggle network connections with a mouse click
Mail/Personal Information management: Novell Evolution, Kontact
Additional e-mail managers: KMail, Pine, Mutt, Thunderbird and more
E-mail importing from Outlook Express
Microsoft Exchange Integration
Configurable spam wizard
Instant messengers: Kopete and Gaim: provide support for a variety of chat standards including those of AOL, MSN, Yahoo!, ICQ and IRC
VNC
Atomic clock time on your computer through preconfigured time servers
Apache, the world's most popular Web server
FTP, DNS, DHCP, Samba, NFS, SLP and NIS servers
Core Components

Kernel 2.6.8
GCC 3.3.4
glibc 2.3.3
X.Org 6.8.1

[ikonia]

are updates still a subscrption service? ?

[Exopaladin]

As far as I know, SuSE package updates have always been and still are free, the only distros I know of that charge for package updates were a couple of the ones that were aimed specifically at Windows users such as Linspire.

[nvening]

what are the system requirements, i wanted to try linux, can i do a second installation so i can try it?

[nvening]

ok found them