Where can I download 10.2?

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Does anyone know where I can download OpenSuSE 10.2?

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ftp://ftp.osuosl.org/pub/opensuse/distribution/11.2/iso/

Sorry. 10.2 (?!). That, I don’t know.

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Index of /mirrors/opensuse/opensuse/distribution/10.2

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On Tue October 19 2010 11:36 pm, caf4926 wrote:

>
> ‘Index of /mirrors/opensuse/opensuse/distribution/10.2’
> (http://ftp.up.ac.za/mirrors/opensuse/opensuse/distribution/10.2/)
>
>
abacabb;

See also:
http://ftp.tu-ilmenau.de/Mirrors/ftp.suse.com/update/10.2/
and
ftp://ftp.uni-paderborn.de/pub/linux/opensuse/distribution/10.2

P. V.
“We’re all in this together, I’m pulling for you.” Red Green

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As you see above, it can still be found. But…support for 10.2 has been dropped long ago. You will definitely run into trouble if you start looking for additional packages, there will be no security updates, no fixes, and for support you’ll be pretty much on your own, i.e. there’s not many of us here that still run 10.2 to help you out in case of trouble.

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I’m wondering why do you need it. As Knurpht already said there’s no
official support for it any more and the long-established guys are
going to use newer versions, too.
Okay, in my company we are using 10.3 on one of our servers, too,
but only because we can’t update while it is being used…

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IIRC, 10.2 had a serious problem with a font rendering bug. 10.3 was a much better release, once all the early updates were applied.

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Yes. 10.3 was brilliant

Some still use it.

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I read an article some time ago, might even have been through the forums, which reported 10.3 as the most used openSUSE version on webservers/VPS’s. I manage a small headless fileserver that’s up for over 400 days, that still runs it. The people using it have asked me to please not update/upgrade it, it cannot be better than this.

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I wanted to implement Snort on my network. The latest OpenSuSE their website displayed was 10.2. Would it run fine on the new distros?

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On 2010-10-20 15:36, abacabb wrote:
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> zwenny;2240890 Wrote:
>> I’m wondering why do you need it. As Knurpht already said there’s no

…

> I wanted to implement Snort on my network. The latest OpenSuSE their
> website displayed was 10.2. Would it run fine on the new distros?

You do not need to download it from their site! It comes in all openSUSE versions, from the openSUSE
default repositories.

For example:

cer@Telcontar:~> webpin snort
8 results (8 packages) found for “snort” in openSUSE_112

  • snort: Network intrusion prevention and detection system
  • 2.8.5.3 [server:/monitoring]
  • snort-debuginfo: Debug information for package snort
  • 2.8.5.3 [server:/monitoring]
  • snort-debugsource: Debug sources for package snort
  • 2.8.5.3 [server:/monitoring]
  • snort-devel: Development files for Snort
  • 2.8.5.3 [server:/monitoring]
  • snort-mysql: Snort with MySQL support
  • 2.8.5.3 [server:/monitoring]
  • snort-mysql-debuginfo: Debug information for package snort-mysql
  • 2.8.5.3 [server:/monitoring]
  • snort-postgresql: Snort with PostgreSQL support
  • 2.8.5.3 [server:/monitoring]
  • snort-postgresql-debuginfo: Debug information for package snort-postgresql

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Cheers / Saludos,

Carlos E. R.
(from 11.2 x86_64 “Emerald” at Telcontar)

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Why was 10.3 so good? And what is considere by most to be the most stable version out there?

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Most stable? It depends on what hardware you have. And it depends on what software you use. And the answer varies SIGNFICANTLY.

I believe most openSUSE versions were pretty good. Some think openSUSE-10.0 was very good, as there was a big shift between openSUSE-10.0 and 10.1.

My recollection is between the release of SuSE-9.3 and openSUSE-10.0 was when Novell acquired SuSE-GmbH. Version 10.0 of SuSE was being developed at the time and so its development was allowed to continue, and the policies that came in place after the Novell SuSE-GmbH acquisition were not really seen until version 10.1 (other than the name change from SuSE-10 to openSUSE-10).

OpenSUSE Version-10.1 was a big change from 10.0. A decision was made that version 10.1 was to no longer continue including propreitary drivers, and this meant a lot of new users had a rough time with 10.1(because for the 1st time they had to install proprietary drivers themselves, as opposed to having them integrated in SuSE/openSUSE). Surprising (to me) at the time was (relatively speaking) this did not receive much attention nor bad press at the time, possibly because the Software Package management for openSUSE changed between 10.0 to 10.1 where the Software Package Management in 10.1 had major problems. Those problems grabbed all the attention. The problems frustrated a lot of users and drove them away, and the press on the Software Package Managment was so bad, that many simply over looked the fact that proprietary driver support in openSUSE was mostly dropped.

Hence many users consider SuSE-9.3 and openSUSE-10.0 as the best releases.

But note that every openSUSE release has enhancements and improvements over the previous versions (new kernel, new libraries, better compatibilty with older hardware in most cases, … etc … ) . Hence if one has new hardware, often ANY old version is not as stable as the current version.

Really, it all boils down to the software one uses and the hardware they have.

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What if my hardware is a VMware Server 1.0.9 virtual machine?

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Simply go with the latest openSUSE.

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On 2010-11-02 20:06, oldcpu wrote:
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> abacabb;2247509 Wrote:
>> What if my hardware is a VMware Server 1.0.9 virtual machine?
>
> Simply go with the latest openSUSE.

There will not be guest additions for the newest version in VMWS 1.

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Cheers / Saludos,

Carlos E. R.
(from 11.2 x86_64 “Emerald” at Telcontar)