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The registration number serves more purposes than just getting the buyer support from SuSE, so by all means, register it after you get up and running with your new SuSE setup!
As mentioned, registration only buys you "installation" support for a brief period of time and only for the current release regardless of when you purchased it... Which makes sense but should be noted on the outside of the box. Be careful when buying off store shelves, I still see 8.0 at Best Buy and other stores. Support only applies to 8.1. I hope SuSE knows we purchased their software I saw the debit on the stmt :-) But otherwise, from a customer standpoint, registration doesn't change anything. We donate our old versions of Slackware, SuSE, etc., to http://www.freelinuxcd.org/new/index.php and I suspect there are a lot of users running SuSE that aren't in their registration database. This applies to Linux Professional 8.1 -- __________________________ DJ mailto: linux_programmer@hotmail.com