RHEL : CentOS :: SLEx : ?
Please do not berate me for the following question -- I am only curious: Just like there exists CentOS as a freely available distribution of RHEL I would like to know whether anyone has done a freely available distribution of SLES or SLED. I have some people to convert to Linux, but since the SUSE Linux 10 distribution is bleeding-edge and not completely stable, I can't give them that (they are not computer-savvy to handle crashes etc) so I would like to give them a stabilized version. I could of course give them CentOS, but I want to give them a SUSE-based system, which is why I ask. -- Tux #395953 resides at http://samvit.org playing with KDE 3.52 on SUSE Linux 10.0 $ date [] CCE +2006-04-09 W14-7 UTC+0530
I heard Novell Linux Desktop is stable. It's directed toward corporate users. On Sunday 09 April 2006 00:28, Shriramana Sharma wrote:
Please do not berate me for the following question -- I am only curious:
Just like there exists CentOS as a freely available distribution of RHEL I would like to know whether anyone has done a freely available distribution of SLES or SLED. I have some people to convert to Linux, but since the SUSE Linux 10 distribution is bleeding-edge and not completely stable, I can't give them that (they are not computer-savvy to handle crashes etc) so I would like to give them a stabilized version. I could of course give them CentOS, but I want to give them a SUSE-based system, which is why I ask.
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Tux #395953 resides at http://samvit.org playing with KDE 3.52 on SUSE Linux 10.0 $ date [] CCE +2006-04-09 W14-7 UTC+0530
On 4/8/06, Shriramana Sharma
Please do not berate me for the following question -- I am only curious:
Just like there exists CentOS as a freely available distribution of RHEL I would like to know whether anyone has done a freely available distribution of SLES or SLED. I have some people to convert to Linux, but since the SUSE Linux 10 distribution is bleeding-edge and not completely stable, I can't give them that (they are not computer-savvy to handle crashes etc) so I would like to give them a stabilized version. I could of course give them CentOS, but I want to give them a SUSE-based system, which is why I ask.
SUSE 10 and SLESx are apples and oranges ... are you looking for an enterprise server platform? If yes, SLES9. CentOS could be a reasonable choice, too ...it depends on what exactly you need/want from the distro Are you looking for a Desktop? If so .. then CentOS is an inappropriate choice. Are you looking for a stable OS platform that can do server or desktop duty? then either the 9X series of SUSE or NLD9 would be fine. peter
enterprise server platform?
I need a SUSE-based stable desktop. I do not need an enterprise system. -- Tux #395953 resides at http://samvit.org playing with KDE 3.52 on SUSE Linux 10.0 $ date [] CCE +2006-04-09 W14-7 UTC+0530
-----Original Message----- From: Shriramana Sharma [mailto:samjnaa@gmail.com] Sent: Saturday, April 08, 2006 11:18 PM To: suse-linux-e@suse.com Subject: Re: [SLE] RHEL : CentOS :: SLEx : ?
enterprise server platform?
I need a SUSE-based stable desktop. I do not need an enterprise system.
Ditto. -Dee
On Sun, 2006-04-09 at 12:47 +0530, Shriramana Sharma wrote:
enterprise server platform?
I need a SUSE-based stable desktop. I do not need an enterprise system.
Then either purchase the boxed version or download the OSS ver. Neither are "bleeding edge" and are -very- stable as long as -you- do not install the bleeding edge software from third party repos. -- Ken Schneider UNIX since 1989, linux since 1994, SuSE since 1998
On Sunday 09 April 2006 04:34 am, Ken Schneider wrote:
On Sun, 2006-04-09 at 12:47 +0530, Shriramana Sharma wrote:
enterprise server platform?
I need a SUSE-based stable desktop. I do not need an enterprise system.
Then either purchase the boxed version or download the OSS ver. Neither are "bleeding edge" and are -very- stable as long as -you- do not install the bleeding edge software from third party repos.
Agree with Ken, here. I'd say the released versions are more than stable. I can't think when the OS has ever crashed on me and have only had a few instances of apps crashing (KMail, Amarok, MS Word) since July, when I loaded 9.3 on this laptop. (I did have some issues with the hard drive under 9.3 which magically disappeared under 10.0.) If you want stable, the "official" sources are that. The "bleeding edge" portion of the distribution comes from loading things like the latest/greatest KDE or Gnome or rolling your own version of - say - Blender. Funny story - my mom calls this week to complain she's got a virus on her SuSE 9.2 system (up since March '05) because she's seeing this happy face follow her mouse all over her screen. Realizing that she had been watching my computer-saavy five-year-old on Tuesday, I inquired if he'd been playing TuxRacer or LBreakout or TuxPaint (his favorites). She said, yes, he had. http://www.perfectreign.com/modules/myalbum/photo.php?lid=81&cid=7 (Here he is playing TuxRacer on my laptop...) I explained that she shouldn't have a virus at all on her system and to right-click the happy face. Turns out my son had somehow launched the On Screen Creature (AMOR). She was able to get rid of it without a problem. I also reminded her that the reason we went with SuSE was to rid her of virus problems, like she had on her WinXP system. Now if only I can get a Linux version of Photoshop for her... -- kai - www.perfectreign.com www.livebeans.com - the new NetBeans community 43...for those who require slightly more than the answer to life, the universe and everything.
Am Sonntag, 9. April 2006 18:23 schrieb kai:
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Now if only I can get a Linux version of Photoshop for her... --
Not having photoshop on Linux was the only reason I had to suffer such a long time under M$ W. As a professional photographer having a good digital photo workflow is quite essential... Now I have a photoshop running (with crossover) - and I *never* use it anymore: digiKam and gimp are even more than a compensation for photoshop. All work that has to be done on the entire image is _much_ easier, faster and more comfortable in digiKam than in photoshop. If you need to do some work on selected parts of the image (or montages) , then gimp is perfect, it can even load my old .psd files with layers. It just takes a (short) while to accustom oneself to the slightly different use, names, shortcuts and menu-positions of the tools. Gimp can be called directly from within digiKam. UFRaw provides a very powerful second opportunity to convert raw image files, extremely much better than the software that is delivered with the cameras (at least the crap delivered with Canon SLR's). Finally for bulk processing (changing sizes or file format e.g. from tiff to jpg etc.) imagemagick provides very powerful command line tools, that are so fast, that a long-time photoshop user sometimes just can't believe it's already done. After I was so much afraid to switch to Linux because of loosing "my" photoshop I now almost can't imagine how I handled all the work before, when I only had photoshop... So make your mom happy and install digiKam on her desktop :-) Daniel -- Daniel Bauer photographer Basel Switzerland professional photography: http://www.daniel-bauer.com special interest site: http://www.bauer-nudes.com
On Monday 10 April 2006 01:12 am, Daniel Bauer wrote:
Am Sonntag, 9. April 2006 18:23 schrieb kai:
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Now if only I can get a Linux version of Photoshop for her... --
Not having photoshop on Linux was the only reason I had to suffer such a long time under M$ W. As a professional photographer having a good digital photo workflow is quite essential...
Now I have a photoshop running (with crossover) - and I *never* use it anymore: digiKam and gimp are even more than a compensation for photoshop. All work that has to be done on the entire image is _much_ easier, faster and more comfortable in digiKam than in photoshop.
She's been using gimp - well, GIMPShop - for the past year and has been more-or-less satisfied. I haven't introduced her to digikam yet, though I've used it on occasion. I've been using Gwenview, too, in order to make pictures managable... http://www.perfectreign.com/pics/2006_florida/ ...nice way to make up web pages. I've also found ShowFoto to be a nice and easy app to use for my level of work. :) I did try to load her copy of Photoshop (8, I think) onto her system, but it bombs under CX Office. I do have her only other MS app, Publisher 98, loaded, and she uses that quite often. -- kai - www.perfectreign.com www.livebeans.com - the new NetBeans community 43...for those who require slightly more than the answer to life, the universe and everything.
Il giorno dom, 09/04/2006 alle 09.58 +0530, Shriramana Sharma ha scritto:
Please do not berate me for the following question -- I am only curious:
Just like there exists CentOS as a freely available distribution of RHEL I would like to know whether anyone has done a freely available distribution of SLES or SLED.
Talking with one of the lead developer of CentOS some time ago it came out that he has heard voices on a project aiming at that. Then no more news has come on that topic, so maybe the idea hasn't inflamed the necessary amount of people needed. -- nicola .:kOoLiNuS:. losito http://koolinus.wordpress.com http://www.koolinus.net "If privacy is outlawed, only outlaws will have privacy." Linux Registered User #293182
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