Run SUSE 10 with free VMWare player on Windows or Linux

Story originally from [KDE Developers] and OSNEWS].

Download the [Free VMWare Player].

“Announcing something which has been cooking already last year but got delayed by POTS bandwidth shortage over the holidays:

VMware released a player for free with which you can run pre-built virtual machines. Somehow their virtual machine center offers under “Novell” only SLES and NLD images. Puzzled I created an image which contains a standard KDE desktop installation of SUSE Linux 10.0 OSS, upgraded to KDE 3.5 including KOffice 1.4.2 excluding non-KDE applications. It’s a fully working installation so don’t forget to install and try some additional KDE applications – and to run the security update when you’re asked to. Eye-wink

You can download it from [developer.kde.org] archived either as 588 MB flavor for Microsoft Windows or 537 MB for Linux.”

And it works like a charm:

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