On 21st November, along with the replease of "pam_ldap", Novell has stop supporting their SUSE Linux 9.2 distribution. Moreover, around the end of April 2007, Novell will drop support for SUSE Linux 9.3. Please have a look at the discontinuation schedule for other SUSE Linux products here.

Novell made SUSE Linux 9.2 available to general public in the beginning of October 2004. It was the first release featuring Delta RPMs, making downloads of patches even smaller than with the Patch RPMs that was used before. The difference in "Recommended" patches is mostly due to the previous SUSE Linux 9.1 being the base of SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 9 and also the first release with Linux 2.6 kernel and so getting more bugfixes.

Patches (active patches) (difference to SL 9.1):
Total: 581 (278 active) (-58)
Security: 487 (204 active) (-5)
Recommended: 74 (57 active) (-45)
Optional: 20 (17 active) (-8)

Split by type of patch (compared with 9.1 for the ones with large numbers):
17 kernel (-3)
16 clamav (+3)
14 apache2-mod_php4 (-3)
13 MozillaFirefox (+2)
11 opera ( 0)
10 ethereal ( 0)
9 phpMyAdmin ( 0)
8 squid (-2)
7 apache2 (-2)
7 squirrelmail (+1)
6 kdelibs3 (-5)
6 mailman ( 0)
6 MozillaThunderbird
6 wget
6 xorg-x11-server
6 xpdf
5 acroread
5 gaim
5 gpg
5 gpg2
5 horde
5 ImageMagick
5 java-1_4_2-sun
5 kdegraphics3-pdf
5 libtiff
5 mozilla
5 mysql
5 postgresql
5 RealPlayer
5 ruby
4 dia
4 evolution
4 freeradius
4 gd
4 gpdf
4 heimdal
4 mpg123
4 openssh
4 openssl
4 pdftohtml
4 samba
4 xine-lib
(rest has 3 occurences or less)

du of update tree:
1748156 ./deltas
1796 ./misc/resizer
1800 ./misc
2156 ./patches
3652 ./patches.obsolete
23068 ./repodata
3696756 ./rpm/i586
87780 ./rpm/noarch
1259832 ./rpm/src
2486308 ./rpm/x86_64
7530680 ./rpm
24 ./scripts
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