Dear Suse, Please sort out the following: 1. Yast2 online update takes 20-->25 minutes to download the updates list. This is on my system at home with a 56K modem, and at work with a leased line. 2. Yast2 downloads all updates for a patch set even if you already have them downloaded. The online update in Suse 7.3 had some intelligence and didn't do this. So now that I've recently installed some KDE3 samba packages from the CD, I cannot get the latest updates for the samba ones as Yast2 downloads all KDE3 updates. 3. How about giving the user some control over the updating of their system with Yast2? We don't want to go the Microsoft route where "Bill knows best". My experience with 7.3 and now with 8.1 has shown some serious lapses in quality. The most serious of which was 8.1's complete messing up of CD-ROM/CD-writer recognition. I knew how to sort this by checking device nodes, links and /etc/fstab, but that's not the point. You're letting yourselves down Suse. Are you like Microsoft which doesn't appear to have quality control or usability at its heart? Your attention to detail stinks. Peter