Running SUSE Linux For the past few years,
Running SUSE Linux For the past few years, SUSE has been the most popular Linux distribution in Europe. Since the U.S. networking company Novell, Inc. purchased SUSE in November 2003, SUSE has been positioning itself to challenge Red Hat to become the dominant Linux distribution for large enterprise computing environments worldwide. The DVD that comes with this book contains the CD image of SUSE 9.2, disk 1. You can burn that image to CD as described in Appendix A and install it as described later in this chapter. Like Red Hat Linux, SUSE is an excellent first Linux for people who prefer to work from a graphical desktop rather than from the command line. Likewise, Novell s Linux product line is geared toward enterprise computing, so the skills you gain using SUSE will scale beyond your home Linux system. SUSE has a slick graphical installer that leads you through installation and intuitive administrative tools, consolidated under a facility called YaST. SUSE and its parent company Novell offer a range of Linux products and support plans that scale up to enterprise computing, as well as free, binary versions of SUSE that you can use with limited support. This chapter describes the features and approach to Linux that set SUSE apart from other Linux distributions. It also explains how to install the SUSE 9.2 distribution that is included with this book. On the DVD-ROM 1C H A0P0T E R . . . . In This Chapter Understanding SUSE What s in SUSE Getting support for SUSE Installing SUSE . . . .
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