[ILUG] SuSE 7.3 to be released 12th October 2001

[Sean Rima]

Originally to: Cormac Mcclean

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 CM> >Personal cut-backs or work cut-backs ? If it's work, and you
 CM> actually use
 CM> >Linux, as I gather you do, and they won't spring the 70 quid or so
 CM> for a
 CM> >boxed set, it might be time to look at the job pages :-)
 CM>
 CM> Personal cut-backs. The newest member of the Linux community is
 CM> expected to arrive in a few weeks, so the IT budget has been slashed.
 CM> I'm suggesting that the new arrival be named "Linus Torvalds
 CM> McClean",
 CM> but for some reason my wife isn't keen.  Maybe "Dust Puppy" McClean??

Congrats on the forthcoming new arrival. Pity they don't get packaged as box 
sets with all the hardware that you would need for the first couple of years 
(personal experience 5 kids)

 CM>
 CM> >You can install SuSE using ftp from
 CM> ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/i386/7.2 and
 CM> >download disks/bootdisk or disks/i386 and put either onto a floppy
 CM> and I
 CM> >beleieve that using this you can install via FTP. However, I seem to
 CM> recall
 CM> >a 32mb requirement to do this.
 CM> I did consider this. But I want to keep my home PC and my work PC in
 CM> sync,
 CM> as in the same Linux distro and version. So I could install via FTP
 CM> at
 CM> work, but that leaves my home system out in the cold. Actually tried
 CM> downloading the files from the ftp site (legal?) at work to bring
 CM> home, but
 CM> the download was too much - wouldn't finish.
 CM>

I have done some investiagtion into why SUSE don't release the ISOs as soon as 
the new distro hits the shelf. It appears that because of licencing problems 
with the commericial software they package, they cannot release the iso as per 
the CD onto their FTP site, therefore they have to do a seperayr ISO for FTP and 
this takes time.

Sean


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