Excellent ! :)

On Thu, 1 Nov 2001, Stuart Cooper wrote:

>
> > > 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.
>
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