WTB: SuSE Pro 9.3 boxed sets

[Phil Kay]

On Tue, 2005-05-10 at 10:20 -0400, Fraser Campbell wrote:
> On May 10, 2005 12:32 am, Henry Spencer wrote:
> > On Tue, 10 May 2005, Fraser Campbell wrote:
> > > Does anyone know of a place in GTA (preferably downtown Toronto) that
> > > sells boxed sets of SuSE Pro 9.3?
> >
> > One place that usually carries them -- haven't checked whether they have
> > Pro 9.3 in stock -- is the U of T Computer Store (a wing of the bookstore),
> > at St. George & College.
> 
> Thanks Henry.  Unfortunately, UofT is out of stock.  They ordered more copies 
> 2 weeks ago and expect to wait at least another 2 weeks (slow to deliver 
> according to guy there).
> 
> camelot.ca and amazon.ca are out of stock.  We've ordered directly from 
> Novell, probably at least 7 days before it reaches us, assuming they have 
> stock :-(
> 
> Enough to make me wonder if Novell is actually interested in selling product!  
> They want to ship me a box with a manual I will never read and a bunch of CDs 
> that will only be used once (in order to copy contents to NFS share).  I 
> might have to start talking my employer into Debian!
> 

If you wait a few weeks, you'll be able to install via ftp or http.
SUSE generally makes the download version available 6 to 8 weeks after
they begin selling the product.  The last I heard, Novell was going to
keep that practice.

Phil
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