I see your point about buying an Linux OS to support the people who produce them and aggree with it fully. The people who do program these OS deserve all the support they can get.

If you are a SuSE programmer then I can agree with you being pissed off about some one boasting about having a wobbely copy of an OS you work on. But thats life, everyone can post here all day arguing about the legal and moral issues of copied software but we are all still going to use them because they are always going to be there and its always going to be cheaper.
The main reason I got a proper version of SuSE is because I knew I would need the manual and tech support that comes with it. Had it been a windows OS I will take the copy any day, if only so I dont have to pay that extorsianate price they put on it!

Im not defending the guy for boasting about having a copied version of it, I think is an idiot for doing that. If your going to use it fine but there is no need to broardcast it to everyone!

Infact your post has made me look at it from another point of veiw CXGJarrod, even though rajumpl started of with a perfectly innocent question, when he bragged about having a copy of SuSE should he really be helped?
Had he bought the original version he would have both a manual and tech support to help him install and configure it so he wouldnt be having this problem in the first place.

If he cant work out how to solve the problem, regardless of what he may think about the OS, he shouldnt really slag it off publically to anyone as someone thinking about using the OS in question may decide not to use it because they now think they cant play cd's, when infact they can, if they have the manual and now how to configure it properly!

Thats MHO anyways.