Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (2441 mails)

[Hans du Plooy <hansdp@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, 2005-06-14 at 10:30 -0400, suse_gasjr4wd@xxxxxxx wrote:
> to see what I'm getting for the extra $ other than the extended time. The
> "support" is still only for installing, right? But does any good GUI comes
> with it...that I can see first?...

Well, the only thing I could see was extra modules (eg. ldap server) in
YaST, and the network service modules that I worked with (mail, apache)
are more comprehensive than in 9.1 Pro (which it is based on).

There's KDE with most of the things you expect, but not as vast a
variety of desktop apps as the Pro versions.

What did strike me though is that SLES felt much much faster than any of
the Pro versions I've used.  Even while the box I installed it in was
slower than it's predecessor (866mhz P3 instead of 1ghz), had less ram
(512 instead of 1024) and had slower discs (2 7200rpm IDE instead of 2
10000rpm SCSI), it still felt more responsive.  Speed is the major
reason I'm considering it.

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