Hello, I hope the enthusiastic accolades now coming onto the list, and the suggestion that discussion about yast1 has just been bandwidth wasting will not alter a few important points arising. Firstly. Why has this speculation arose ? And why have Suse not officially responded to the mailling list that fills the inadequacies in their support for zero cost ? Someone on the list has stated that Suse are modularising yast, and that yast1 and yast2 will both be available. How does he know this ? Is he privy to information we are not. If this is the case why are there no Alsa or new printer modules in Yast1 under Version 7.0, but existing for Yast2? Why does Suse not make it's intentions clear ? You all pay for Suse, the CD's may not be reproduced by 3rd parties for sale (unlike nearly all other distro's -- including Redhat). So you are paying for the distribution technology. This is certainly one of the reasons I use Suse. It seems to me to be completely legitimate to ask what the future holds in this regard. Suse in my experience almost never respond to feedback or info emails. It is time they did. This is a matter of a business transaction. Suse sit outside the free distribution chain so common in Linux - therefore they should respond in a business like manner. Flames to /dev/null. Creative comments to Suse. Cliff