SuSE 9.1 Personal student price?

[hop-frog]

The SuSE homepage lists SuSE 9.1 Professional for US $89.95, with a student price of $59.95. Is there a reduced student price for SuSE 9.1 Personal?

[ph34r]

You can get the pro version free if you can find that thread about Novell giving away copies of 8.0 enterprise, the novell tools, and pro 9.1 .

[viperlin]

or you can download/buy the free one.

buy from a linux distro dealer, there about £3 for the disks including P&P

[hop-frog]

Originally posted by ph34r
You can get the pro version free if you can find that thread about Novell giving away copies of 8.0 enterprise, the novell tools, and pro 9.1 . Is that still available? I thought that was a limited time offer, and by the time I read the offer, it was already closed.Originally posted at http://www.novell.com/community/linux/order.php
At this time we are not accepting any more orders. If you are interested in receiving notice of other forthcoming Linux opportunities from Novell similar to this Linux Technical Resource Kit, please provide your name and e-mail address below.

[Parcival]

No, you can't get a SuSE Personal Edition with students' discount. SuSE's idea is to give away the Professional Edition for the price of the Personal Edition to students.

[hop-frog]

Originally posted by Parcival
No, you can't get a SuSE Personal Edition with students' discount. SuSE's idea is to give away the Professional Edition for the price of the Personal Edition to students. Where can I buy the Professional Edition for the same as the Personal Edition? Even at the student rate, Professional Edition costs twice as much as the Personal Edition.

[Parcival]

Originally posted by hop-frog
Where can I buy the Professional Edition for the same as the Personal Edition? Even at the student rate, Professional Edition costs twice as much as the Personal Edition.

Sorry, hop-frog, I figured the $59.95 is also the price you guys have to pay for the Personal Edition (because the price is close to what we pay in Switzerland for a Personal/Student Edition but it seems like that's only the system overhere).

[timothykaine]

Right now you can get Personal for free:

http://www.suse.com/us/private/download/ftp/personal_iso_int.html

Or a student/teacher discount on Pro to bring the price to $59.95 if you meet the following requirements:

http://www.suse.com/us/company/edu/eligible_individuals_institutions.html

[hard candy]

Linux Central (http://www.linuxcentral.com/catalog/index.php3?prod_code=L000-252&id=C1CwUAAJGAvCy) has the 9.1 Personal cdrom for $2.95 (plus $2.95 First Class mail and they have international shipping as well).
It's the "installable personal edition cd", which means it is basically what you can download off the web

[thread_killer]

Hmmm.... I don't know if the 9.1 Personal edition is the same as the 700mb .iso you can download, but if it is, it's crap. (In my humble opinion of course). I much prefer my 9.0 professional to the 9.1 cd I got from Novell. There isn't even a compiler on it!

Yeah, the desktop is pretty (In fact, I upgraded KDE on my 9.0 box today because I like some of the features) but it's a very neutered distro. I loaded it on my laptop and my work machine and quickly went back to 9.0 on both. I'm considering whether the changes are enough to go through an entire upgrade. (9.0 pro to 9.1 pro) Most of them seem to be KDE related. I can live without eye-candy. I can't live without a compilier.

My two cents.

[paj12]

The Personal edition you can buy in the box is NOT the same as the downloaded ISO. The ISO is really stripped down and doesn't come with a lot of software. It is like the LiveCD, to give you a taste of Linux.

If you want the whole 9 yards and have enough bandwidth, do an FTP install of the Pro edition. This is the best way to go, in my opinion.

[endoalpha]

I have successfully installed the downloadable SUSE 9.1 personal, and after install I set up yast to the ftp site for further installs, thus giving me the full blown SUSE 9.1.