Whom did you ask at SuSE Germany about shipping to Israel ? I got a shipment from them some month ago without any problem (except the price).
Schlomo On Mon, 3 Dec 2001, Gold Edward wrote: > I can give some summary about my "quest" for the official > distribution in Israel SuSE . > > I tried to get SuSE latest version (7.3) from all sources -- and did not > succeed : > PF1 stopped to import it and the same situation with another company > from > Raanana which SuSE site listed as their second Israeli supplier. > Amazon is supplying it in U.S. only (don't know the cause)-- and the > same > situation was encountered after some > non-extensive checkings on other US sw. selling sites . > > BTW- not sure, but SuSE site sells it for 78 US $ "only"-- not 130. > I totaly agree with Nadav-Har'El opinion about this distribution first > class > quality-- > I used 6.1 for a long time (bought on BUG on September 1999)-- > but on work we could not obtain > SuSE 7.3 (we needed it because we thought that 2.4.15) would > give us some Posix IPC features. > SuSE site mentions that they sell only in E.U. -- very curious > behaviour... > We ended up on RH7.1 (2.4.10 & updated afterwards to 2.4.15). > It is an unfortunate situation that such a succesfull distribution > can not be easily obtained around here-- I mean their all > goodies, i.e. 2300 packages (and manuals). > > Edy > > > > Daniel Feiglin wrote: > > > Schlomo Schapiro wrote: > > > > > Hi, > > > > > > PF1/REL imported them last time I checked (by phone). I saw it also once > > > in a shop in JM (an old version, of course). > > > > But they stopped. You can see V7.1 on their site. > > > > > > > > And, they actually do have an excellend Evaluation CD (nobody else has > > > s.th. like this !): It boots a live filesystem from CD with all bells and > > > whistles installed. Including proper setup and it saves all the data + > > > your home dir on the local disk (vfat partition needed). > > > > > > I think this is a very good solution for the evaluation problem and people > > > who want to suck from this a normal installation can just boot it and copy > > > it over to their hard disk (and do normal RPM installs afterwards). > > > > > > Schlomo > > > > > > PS: Download it from ftp://schapiro.org > > > > > > > > > On Mon, 3 Dec 2001, Tzafrir Cohen wrote: > > > > > > > > >>On Mon, 3 Dec 2001, Schlomo Schapiro wrote: > > >> > > >> > > >>>Hi, > > >>> > > >>>I also tried to talk to them (and I speak German !) to no avail. I told > > >>>them that their local importers are doing them a dis-service. But they > > >>>told me that they have long-running contracts and that's it. > > >>> > > >>Who is their local importer? > > >> > > >>Last time I looked at their site, there was a link to an Israeli reseller. > > >>The site of the Israeli reseller had no mention of SuSE (only of > > >>Mandrake, if you bothered digging deep enough into the site). > > >> > > >>Do you see any SuSE in any store? Do you see any Redhat or Mandrake? > > >> > > >> > > >>>I don't think that the problem is political, though. I see two major > > >>>problems: > > >>>1) Israel is very RedHat centric (we are soooo American !), therefore > > >>>there are not so many (almost NIL) people who would buy SuSE > > >>> > > >>SuSE sells pretty well in the US. Mandrake (originally french) is also > > >>doing well. Maybe some people here have problems with German products (no > > >>flames please, I'm only stating a fact), however I don't think that this > > >>is reflected in the sales of FolksWagen. > > >> > > >> > > >>>2) SuSE doesn't bother to have importers in many countries. They are just > > >>>open for importers to make business with them. I imagine that the > > >>>Situation in Cyprus or Poland is not much better than here. It's just our > > >>>bad luck that we got an "Israeli" SuSE importer. > > >>> > > >>Hmm... > > >> > > >> > > >>>Also, note that $130 seems pretty close to the SuSE price if you would > > >>>order from them directly (from Germany). > > >>> > > >>>I once ordered a package directly from them for my work and it > > >>>was all very well, except the 60 DM shipping cost. > > >>> > > >>130$? > > >> > > >>If they don't start handing out evaluation CDs, (almost) no-one in Israel > > >>will bother with that. > > >> > > >> > > >> > > > > > > > Other matters: At various times I've seen SuSE even in BUG! > > > > Why SuSE: I started out with Redhat in 5.1-2 days. 6.0 was a disaster. PF1 > > offered me SuSE 6.1 for peanuts, at Computax, and in terms of distro quality and > > scope I never looked back. I must confess that 7.1 was not brilliant, and I > > finished up with what in now SuSE 7.1 and a half - d/l'd kernel 2.4.9 and got > > KDE 2.2.1 from a CD burning outfit in the US (also cost peanuts). > > > > SuSE refused to supply me the 7.2 upgrade: They referred me to their UK dealer > > who said that he could only supply from South Africa. Stuff that. About 7.3: > > There are some rather nasty reviews floating around (LinuxPlanet) for anyone > > trying to upgrade using the graphics interface (yast2). If anyone is interested, > > I have them in a 256Kb tarball. > > > > ================================================================= > > To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with > > the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command > > echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > ================================================================= > To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with > the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command > echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > -- Schlomo Schapiro Senior System Administrator MobilEye Vision Technologies Ltd. 24 Mishol Hadkalim St., Jerusalem, Israel Telephone: + 972-2-586-6989 Ext. 131 Mobile: + 972-55-767898 Fax: + 972-2-586-7720 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] WWW: http://www.mobileye.com ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
