I have seen postings from other users about their installation and usage of SuSE Linux 8.1 for quite some time now. The official release date of the version was October 7th. SuSE has promised the Danish dealers shippings with the version arriving in Denmark within week 41. This was later changed to week 42. Now we are entering week 44. This is not the first time SuSE is dragging Danish dealers around by their noses. In fact it´s the same scenario each and every time SuSE releases a new version. What´s going on? It would be nice, of course, to hear from a SuSE insider on this. Best regards, David List

On Sunday 27 October 2002 12:29, Alexandr Malusek wrote:

I've ordered 8.1 via a Swedish reseller (http://www.linuxshop.nu/) but haven't got it yet. Another Swedish reseller (http://www.lindist.se/) has recently announced shipment in week 44. The problem is not Denmark-specific.

Sweden... Linuxstore.se is where I ordered. It finally arrived this past Thursday. Then again, I kept bugging them, and they kept bugging their distributor. They know how vital a new SuSE distro is for the good of mankind. :-P Joe

David List writes:

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SuSE has promised the Danish dealers shippings with the version arriving in Denmark within week 41. This was later changed to week 42. Now we are entering week 44.

I ordered 8.1 online from http://store.suse.com/ on 2002-10-08 and received it on 2002-10-15 via UPS (about $10 shipping charge). This was in the USA, and in English. It's no surprise that the online operation gets first crack at the products. I didn't even look in the local retailers; I just assumed they wouldn't have it for a long time. James F. Carter Voice 310 825 2897 FAX 310 206 6673 UCLA-Mathnet; 6115 MSA; 405 Hilgard Ave.; Los Angeles, CA, USA 90095-1555 Email: jimc@math.ucla.edu http://www.math.ucla.edu/~jimc (q.v. for PGP key)

This feature is missing in 8.1 We had the topic also in the german version of this mailing list and figured out, that the only thing which is now available is a packetgroup called autoyast. It's really a nice tool - but a bit complex. The tutorial for autoyast is located under /usr/share/doc/packages/autoyast2/html/index.html It takes some time to read all the stuff - but it's worth... Greetings Claudia On Friday 25 October 2002 13:01, Togan Muftuoglu wrote:

* Jan van Roessel; on 25 Oct, 2002 wrote:

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Hi there,

I am using 8.1 and was wondering if it is possible like in earlyer versions of YAST to save the package selection to a plain text file (package.usr) so when i would like to install another workstation with the same package selection i don't have to go through all packages again.

AFAIK this feature is missing as the time being :-(