> > Is SuSE-7.3 available in Australia yet? Hoping to bring one with me but > > not sure it will be available in Canada before I leave in December. > Not yet, and no word from the usual sources when it will be (guys ??). I > believe SuSE are being ... recalcitrant ... at the moment... I've > just emailed a few contacts there directly to see if it can be hurried up.
If you can't wait; you can roll your own using the following procedure: How to make your own SuSE 7.3, from SuSE 7.1 or 7.2 =================================================== 1) Create a new impossible three-dimensional shape; in green for the professional edition and blue for personal edition. Print out this figure and slap in on the front of the SuSE product box. The blue shape should look a bit like a spinning top and the green shape should have triangle things in it. 2) Make new versions of the SuSE sysadmin tool Yast and X admin tool SaX: # ln -s /sbin/yast2 /sbin/yast3 # ln -s /usr/X11R6/bin/sax2 /usr/X11R6/bin/sax3 Also have a later point release of KDE and a choice to install up to 5 different Linux kernels during the installation. 3) Create another four CDs for the professional pack so that SuSE now comes on 11 CDs not a disappointing 7. You should be able to do this by grabbing the latest stable version of absolutely everything from rpmfind.net. After you've done this find some more RPM archive sites and grab everything off them as well. Then do freshmeat. 4) Create some more high quality documentation. Every 70th diagram should be captioned in German and not English. 5) (hard) Exhaustively test the installation and software configurations. Provide installation support and a superb web site and support database. Get another round of funding from IBM and Intel. Hope this helps :) Stuart. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
