On Tuesday 05 November 2002 08:48, lester@lsces.co.uk wrote:
This isn't a terribly helpful answer, now is it ? Why did you even bother to waste the bandwidth on it ?
In the absence of any info on where the original questioner was based, the answer was complete.
The update version is only available direct from SuSE:
Since the questioner had already purchased 8.0, 8.1 would come from the same source, and personally I would expect them to have the upgrade version as well - as other people have replied.
Unless this is reference to something SuSE offered back around the 6.4/7.0 days. There was an offer where you bought a subscription version. You paid a slightly higher price for the first one you bought on subscription, and then got (I think 4) subsequent versions at a significantly lower price. It worked out to be a lot cheaper than buying individual versions. I bought this... and then got absolutely zero subscription versions because the distribution structure in Europe changed and I could no longer buy the subscription version direct from SuSE. I have never got an answer from SuSE via the sales and support email addresses about what I could do about this. I gave up on it as money lost. I just buy the Upgrade version from a local distributor. C.