On Sat, 2006-05-20 at 20:13 -0400, James Knott wrote:

Hans du Plooy wrote:

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Hi guys,

I saw this package this morning at a local shop. Obviously quite old, but they're still pricing it at about twice what SUSE 10.1 retail goes for.

Is this downloadable? I'm just curious to see what it does and how.

http://www.suse.com/en/business/products/suse_business/firewall/index.html

I see one of the "new" features is the 1.4.18 kernel. I would have to say this product is quite out of date. -- Ken Schneider UNIX since 1989, linux since 1994, SuSE since 1998

On Sat, 2006-05-20 at 23:34 -0400, Ken Schneider wrote:

On Sat, 2006-05-20 at 23:29 -0400, Ken Schneider wrote:

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On Sat, 2006-05-20 at 20:13 -0400, James Knott wrote:

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Hans du Plooy wrote:

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Hi guys,

I saw this package this morning at a local shop. Obviously quite old, but they're still pricing it at about twice what SUSE 10.1 retail goes for.

Is this downloadable? I'm just curious to see what it does and how.

http://www.suse.com/en/business/products/suse_business/firewall/index.html

I see one of the "new" features is the 1.4.18 kernel.

Oops should read 2.4.28 kernel

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I would have to say this product is quite out of date.

Grabbing a page from the Debian handbook perhaps? I noted the Linus wants to do a rewrite of the kernel and stop development until he's satisfied that it's back up to snuff. 2.4 might just be in order then.

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 The Sunday 2006-05-21 at 11:36 +0200, Hans du Plooy wrote:

2.4 is still the basis for a number of firewall distros and other task-specific distros. I see no problem with that, 2.4 is as stable as they come.

My adls router is bassed on a 2.4.17 kernel (BusyBox), and I got it in February. - -- Cheers, Carlos Robinson -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.0 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Made with pgp4pine 1.76 iD8DBQFEcHzbtTMYHG2NR9URAhsZAKCMNGVn5rPw32AElE78FQFqFfGdcwCdFCnw qD+Wv2fcqiojCDEr7sfPIjY= =ZUi3 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

On Sun, 2006-05-21 at 09:56 -0400, Allen wrote:

I saved my box and everything that came with each version of SUSE since I started using it (8.1 Professional). Unfortunately I don't have the space to do that. I have my 10.0 box lying around, but it will go to file 13 as soon as my 10.1 box arrive :-) I keep the CDs and manuals, but they usually find their way into the hands of of some kid or student or someone else just starting out.

And they usually come with a booklet which is a catalog of things you can buy, and this is one of the things listed. I've never seen this. But then I suspect Novell produce the packaging locally over here, and the contents might differ.

Hans