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   I've been a long time fan of the SuSE "Professional Edition".  Some of their releases had lots of problems, but most were pretty good.  I'm in the midst of upgrading a several 9.0 machines to 9.1.  I've seen a big jump in quality from 8x to 9x.  I almost pulled off upgrading a RH9 distro to SuSE 9.1.  I was amazed at how complete the upgrade was (unfortunately, it didn't dig out enough of the RH specific stuff, and failed to get past single user mode.)

   For keeping it updated, there is Yast's Online-Update (YOU) or Novell's (ex Ximian) Red-Carpet (still free).  But they both only serve up what SuSE has provided.  Of course, sometimes you might get lucky on rpmfind.net.

   There are other excellent sources of newer, or non-crippled software for SuSE, but they fall into the download-and-install-the-rpm mode.  The best of these is <a  rel="nofollow" href="http://packman.links2linux.org/";>http://packman.links2linux.org/</a> (or <a  rel="nofollow" href="http://packman.links2linux.de/";>http://packman.links2linux.de/</a> if you prefer it in German), which even lists/provides non-SuSE dependency packages.  Someone else mentioned <a  rel="nofollow" href="http://www.usr-local-bin.org/";>http://www.usr-local-bin.org/</a>, but he tends to only release for whatever the current version of SuSE is out there.  I know of <a  rel="nofollow" href="http://guru.linuxbe.org/index.php";>http://guru.linuxbe.org/index.php</a> who also maintains a apt2rpm repository, plus there is <a  rel="nofollow" href="http://lenz.homelinux.org/RPMs/";>http://lenz.homelinux.org/RPMs/</a> and <a  rel="nofollow" href="http://gaugusch.at/susepackages.shtml";>http://gaugusch.at/susepackages.shtml</a> (but I've never used either of the last two).

   For less painful updates, try apt4rpm <a  rel="nofollow" href="http://linux01.gwdg.de/apt4rpm/";>http://linux01.gwdg.de/apt4rpm/</a> and Fou4s <a  rel="nofollow" href="http://fou4s.gaugusch.at/";>http://fou4s.gaugusch.at/</a>

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Found in Sydney,
   Keith


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