The easy way to get openSUSE 10.2

Posted by Daniel Stout on Thu 7 Dec 2006 at 8:25 PM

Just as an example of how cool Linux is to use, it’s very easy to do huge downloads. If you’re wanting to get the DVD image for openSUSE 10.2, a simple command will do the trick. In Windows, if you’re trying to download a greater than 2 GB file, then you’ll have to download some nasty download manager that may or may not have spyware attached. But with Linux it’s easy.

So to download the latest 3.6 GB DVD ISO for openSUSE, just open a terminal window and type:

wget http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/10.2/iso/dvd/openSUSE-10.2-GM-DVD-i386.iso

And yes, that’s a long URL, so just do the easy thing and copy and paste it from Firefox. You can right-click a link and select Copy Link Location, and then just paste it into the terminal window. The important part is the wget. wget is a handy utility for downloading huge files over HTTP. If you type wget —help, you’ll see that you can even use it for downloading from password protected sites, even FTP sites. wget does it all and does nothing I don’t need.

And that, in a word, is how Linux is. Linux is filled with lots of useful stuff. Linux is a great operating system for getting the job done.

Tags: download · getting the job done · linux · manager · opensuse · wget · windows

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