I will add one method.  If you have a current maintenance support
contract, you can download the new release from the maintenance web
site.

But since Suse contains Yast, which is not in the public domain, the
Suse code isn't in the public domain.  But the trial and evaluation
copies, which are identical to the production copies, are free, from
Suse and they contain some "months" of installation support and
maintenance web access.  These products are not to be used in production
 (their wording).  But once the trail/evaluation support keys expire,
you need to buy a support contract if you want to keep up with
maintenance and/or use it in production.

I don't think the product will expire and refuse to IPL when the
support key expires, but I sure wouldn't want to bet my job in putting
something in production that doesn't have some sort of "support"
available.  

Not that you actually have to have a support contract with any flavor. 
Your management can always assign xxxx number of your hours to manually
maintain your system, but obtaining the public domain patches and
applying them to your system, and testing, etc.  But the cost of making
that function a "fundable position" is way more than the cost of a
maintenance contract (IMHO).

Tom Duerbusch
THD Consulting


>>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 07/15/03 02:11PM >>>
The latest version is SuSE SLES8.  It is not available for download. 
You
must contact SuSE and ask for an evaluation or a trial copy of the
software.

Mark Post

-----Original Message-----
From: Rugel Jos� [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: Tuesday, July 15, 2003 11:38 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Subject: Suse Version


Dos anybody  know about  last  version of  Suse Linux for  S/390  G6 
and
where  can I  download it ?.


TIA.
JRC




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