Thanks, Stuart. One sure way to save $cdn.120 and also to drive yourself crazy for the rest of your life. Two factors..a dial-up modem and my age of 72 should certainly cover the rest of my life.
Thanks, anyway. I'll see what Santa brings. Tonight is Halloween and them goblins are restless. Minus 5 deg C outside. Cheers Bob Bob Hubbard St.Albert, Ab CANADA On Thu, 1 Nov 2001, Stuart Cooper wrote: > > 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 > -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
