On Thu, 29 May 2003 06:55:41 -0500
"NOUTH, LENA R (CONTRACTOR)"
Hi,
It's been a while since I play with Linux. I'd like to jump back into it.
I wonder if it is sufficient to start with Suse 8.2 Personal. If so, can I later easily upgrade to 8.2 Professional?
It depends what you want to do. If you just want to run a desktop, without alot of servers running, the Personal is good. But if you want to run servers, and do alot of program compiling and development, then you can get the extra rpms from the suse mirrors, but it can take alot of time, especially on a dialup line. I mean hours and hours of downloading rpms, then finding out it has dependencies, so you need other rpms......on and on ......ad nauseum. So what is your time worth? Is 30 hours of messing around downloading and guessing at rpms, worth the extra $30 ? If you are more than a casual desktop user, go with the pro. You don't need the manuals, because they are on the cd's. So get the pro-update version, the extra $30 is worth it in time and hassle savings. -- use Perl; #powerful programmable prestidigitation