SuSE 9.2 Now Freely Available

Any SuSE fans in the house? I’m sure there are at least a few of you, and I’ve got good news! The Inquirer is reporting that Novell is making SuSE Linux 9.2 Professional available as a free download. No limited-time functionality, no catches. The full version, free. See for yourself (once traffic generated by the announcement dies down, that is).

The main reason I never installed SuSE when I first got started with Linux is simply because they never made it fully available. I didn’t want to pay upwards of $80 to purchase a retail version if I wasn’t sure it would do the job for me, and I figured costs like that were the main reason I was leaving Microsoft behind anyway. Sure, I could have installed it via FTP, but I didn’t have broadband at home at the time. Friends burned me ISOs (which is perfectly acceptable to SuSE), but it seemed like new versions were due by the time I got around to obtaining the ISOs.

Now that I can get the full version for free at my leisure, I may just take a crack at it at some point. In fact, we’ve got a spare workstation at work that this would probably install nicely on…