On Monday 10 January 2005 04:12, Niels Voll wrote:
> is there a chance, that it has to do with software not licensed in a
> fashion to allow them to include it on a free DVD?

we haven't quite figured out what the pattern is yet =) 

> For example, when I just installed it on one of my machines, and right
> after the base install of DVD, the installer offers to load a few
> packages (some nvidia drivers and a few others - unfortunately I don't
> remember them all) from the network, explicitly saying that their
> licensing made it impossible to include them on the DVD.

yes, this is the same no matter how you install SUSE.

> However, just in case Novell screws up SuSE, it's good to know, that

well, it seems ok so far. an ISO of any sort is better than what they've 
traditionally done =)

i did an FTP install last night and it went swimingly.

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