I purchased my version of openSUSE-11.4 earlier this week.
The delivery was fast. I ordered it on Thurday 14-July, and it arrived by DHL (in our packstation box) today on Saturday 16-July. This fast delivery was pleasing, as I confess I was very late in ordering 11.4 this year.
Of course one can download 11.4 from the Internet, and in fact I have done so already, with 11.4 already installed on my Sandbox PC and on a Test Partition on my main PC. Still, I’ve almost purchased every version of openSUSE (and before that SuSE-Pro) since version-7.3 and I did not want to break the trend of my purchases.
My being a native English speaker, I typically prefer to order the English packaged version, as I obtain the manual and packaging in the English langauge, and I was pleased to see that offered.
For those who are curious, this is the packaging:
First the box from the front:
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Second the box from the back:
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And now the box contents next to the box (from the front)
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And finally the back of the box contents.
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There is an activation code (which I blanked out in this image) , which I believe is for the basic support that comes with purchasing openSUSE-11.4. I confess even though I have pretty much purchased every version since 7.3 I’ve never used this support … still its there for those interested.
Inside the DVD container are two DVDs.
One DVD is a double layer combined openSUSE-11.4 32-bit and 64-bit install. It has a note on it as to the recommended System Requirements: Processor: Intel Pentium 1-4 and Xeon; AMD Duron, Athlon, Athlon XP, Athlon MP, Athlon 64, Sempron and Opteron, Phenom X2, X3, X4, X6; 32-bit and 64-bit, Supports most modern sound and graphics cards.
The second DVD is labelled balsam-extensions with purported this inside:
- Live-DVD
- Plasma Mobile UI
- Non open source software
- balsam repos
The small ‘Start-Up’ Manual is very good, with this for contents:
- About this guide (4-pages)
- Installation Quick Start (8-pages with screen shots)
- KDE Quick Start (~30 pages)
- GNOME Quick Start (~22 pages)
- LibreOffice Quick Start (~16 pages)
- Help and Troubleshooting (~33 pages)
In particular the ‘Help and Troubleshoot’ section was very good. Some of the troubleshooting techniques were educational for me and I have been using GNU/Linux since 1998 and a variant of SuSE or openSUSE since 2001.
Since I live in Germany, I found it convenient to order from SUSE shop like I have many times in the past.
One can find where openSUSE can be purchased by clicking on this link: Buy openSUSE - openSUSE