Rasmus Plewe wrote:
On Sat, Aug 13, 2005 at 07:53:42AM +0530, Shriramana Sharma wrote:
But if that's right then why two different editions? You can just have one commercial product and opt out of installing the server packages for the end user - how does that justify an entirely separate version? It's unnecessary trouble for Novell, no?
You mean, like, instead of having and selling versions like "MS Windows XP Home" and "MS Windows XP Professional" simply having one "MS Windows XP", with two different installation profiles?
Wel, maybe not exactly like that - Windows isn't so intelligent as to allow real differences between installation profiles - usually all the customization you get has to do with superficial application packages like Notepad etc, and not to the extent of libraries or such "higher-level" (i.e. more geek) stuff. I wouldn't want to compare the idea of a Linux install with different install profiles to Win XP versions, but yeah, the general idea is the same Linux install with two different profiles. -- Shriramana Sharma http://samvit.org