Silviu Marin-Caea wrote:
On Monday 07 August 2006 15:52, Per Jessen wrote:
Would you care to elaborate? Whether or not an enterprise uses SLED or openSUSE is only a matter of IT policy, not features nor anything else.
The above would be nice if it were true but it is not true.
OpenSuSE does not contain any non open source programs ie ones that may not be used without paying royalties. SLED is a commercial program which does contain non open source programs ie ones in which one must pay royalties to use. If you do not need the non open source programs then of course they are then equivalent but if of course you need such programs to make your system work then they are not equivalent. Last I heard most win modem programs are non open source. That would seem to imply that if one wanted a laptop to use its internal to connect to the internet and that one was not a geek then would need to purchase SuSE. Apparently it is very difficult for people to understand that there are two ways of making an operating system work - become a geek or pay a geek to do the work. If one has different interest say is a medical doctor et then one feel of expertise is not being a geek meaning that it is preferable to pay someone else to be the geek. Realize OpenSuSE is a geek thing. SLED is a non geek thing. That is the program that geeks sell to non geeks who have no desires to be a geek so that the geeks can buy non geek things like food and bear. Very simple stuff. No sale of non geek programs to non geeks then the geeks do not get to eat or drink bear.
If the stability, service and support of SLED is preferred
I would think that for a corporate executive's laptop, stability, service and support of SLED is preferred.
You seem to view things only from a position of administering a small IT environment. Even so, it's no fun reinstalling stations every two years, when the consummer distro is out of maintenance.
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