On Sunday 07 July 2002 17.18, Graham Murray wrote:
As I have the professional edition, I do not know which packages are in the personal edition. Yet in the list quoted at least Gaim, GnuPG, NcFTP, and OpenOffice are desktop/client, not server, applications.
True, and I don't know the rationale for leaving them out. Since I don't have the personal I can't even say if they have been left out. I know some people have said packages are missing in the professional that are in fact there, so I'm not assuming anything. But observe that the personal edition came about because so many people said the sheer number of packages in the SuSE distribution was frightening to newcomers. A newbie to linux doesn't compile software, he doesn't run servers, he doesn't need 2^25 text editors etc, etc, etc. I guess the people who bought the personal edition and then complain about the lack of, for example, development libraries should have read a bit more before buying. I guess they thought it was just a low cost version of the standard dist. //Anders