On Sun, 2002-07-07 at 23:25, Anders Johansson wrote:
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.
To me it just sounds plain wrong. You might be a home user, but if you create a web site, it is great to have Apache running on your localhost and check things out before publishing. And what about rp-pppoe, the ADSL connection package? Surely, it is not only useful, it is essential if your ISP uses this type of service. On the other hand, xine is missing from the Pro edition - where is the logic in that? Sorry, but I feel that the decision should be made by the user and not by the SuSE's marketing department. You might get a few voices saying "too many applications", but once you start leaving some out you will get a lot more voices saying "why is this or that missing". Ladislav