Silviu Marin-Caea wrote:
Rephrase: I would think that for a corporate executive's laptop, stability, service and support of SLED is preferred by the IT.
But you have yet to explain why. And as I've been saying, it's purely down to policy. I've spent a lot of my working life in large IBM installations - some places prefer to leave all maintenance to IBM, some even outsource it to IBM. Other places have departments of e.g. 20-30 people dabbling away in the OS all day (and night occasionally) to get that very last bit of performance. For the former, applying a maintenance patch is a matter of course, for the latter, each and every patch provided by IBM will be scrutinized to make sure it doesn't upset anything. I don't see why it should be any different for using SUSE Linux - some places will be quite happy to get a SLEx release and install maintenance when and as provided by SUSE, other places will have a more hands-on approach and do everything themselves. All down to IT policy (and skills available).
maintenance? We have a number of systems where that has long been the case - no trouble maintaining them sofar. The oldest is a server still running 7.1.
Now assume that business requires that you need to install something new on that. It is a PITA, too much effort & time.
Well, perhaps - I'd just get the source and build it. But of course such an old system rarely needs anything new - that's why it's being kept like that. /Per Jessen, Zürich --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-help@opensuse.org