No offense intended, but yes it is..and no matter if you believe it or not..it is. SuSE puts their iso's up about 4 weeks after it has been released and yes it is to spur on box sales. SuSE puts together their distribution to make money and with the recent shake ups it has taken longer. If you don't want to buy 7.1..then don't. The rest of use will enjoy the finest product they have put out ever. I love Open Source software and I am very much in the community...but this f**king free beer mentality is just getting old. Read the reviews and the feedback and either buy it or wait until they are ready to release the iso EVAL. *shrug* Sorry to be blunt, but people in business need to make money to stay in business. I don't want to see SuSE suffer the same fate as the dot.bombs did...otherwise we have RH and their broken version of GCC and wrong headerfiles to deal with and I am just not willing to accept that. Just my 0.02 * NOC - Kulish Consulting (noc@kulish.com) [010323 09:02]: =>I dont =>think 7.1 is that big of a jump from 7.0 (with the 2.4.2 kernel), which I am =>running now. -- Ben Rosenberg mailto:ben@whack.org ----- If two men agree on everything, you can be sure that only one of them is doing the thinking.