I bought Suse Professional 9.3 some time ago, but only used it
Now it seems there are many different versions from Novell/Suse, plus
occasionaly. there
is OpenSuse. I will soon be using SUSE in a commercial enviroment, and was wondering which version I should get at home in order to stay in sync with work-related stuff. I think I will be using SLES.
AFAIK: SLES = Suse Linux Enterprise Server. Not a workstation. You won't be using this. NLD = Novell Linux Desktop - a.k.a. SuSE 9.2 or 9.3 soon to be replaced by SUSE Enterprise Desktop. (I think.) SUSE 10.0 Retail - this is the boxed version. openSUSE - the downloadable version at www.opensuse.org SUPER - the optimized fork (distribution?) of openSUSE http://en.opensuse.org/SUPER
Is there an online comparison of the functional differences between them - prefereably from a 3rd party? I had heard that OpenSUSe was identical to the regular versions, but was not allowed access to the commercial repos, though I don't know if this is true.
Yeah, pretty much that's the case. However, you can get the "commercial" stuff through other means if you want. Just curious - your company is deploying Linux on the desktop? Tell us more. -- kai ponte www.perfectreign.com || www.livebeans.com linux - genuine windows replacement part
I had never heard of SUPER
thanks!
On 3/16/06, Kai Ponte
I bought Suse Professional 9.3 some time ago, but only used it
Now it seems there are many different versions from Novell/Suse, plus
occasionaly. there
is OpenSuse. I will soon be using SUSE in a commercial enviroment, and was wondering which version I should get at home in order to stay in sync with work-related stuff. I think I will be using SLES.
AFAIK:
SLES = Suse Linux Enterprise Server. Not a workstation. You won't be using this.
NLD = Novell Linux Desktop - a.k.a. SuSE 9.2 or 9.3 soon to be replaced by SUSE Enterprise Desktop. (I think.)
SUSE 10.0 Retail - this is the boxed version.
openSUSE - the downloadable version at www.opensuse.org
SUPER - the optimized fork (distribution?) of openSUSE http://en.opensuse.org/SUPER
Is there an online comparison of the functional differences between them
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prefereably from a 3rd party? I had heard that OpenSUSe was identical to the regular versions, but was not allowed access to the commercial repos, though I don't know if this is true.
Yeah, pretty much that's the case. However, you can get the "commercial" stuff through other means if you want.
Just curious - your company is deploying Linux on the desktop? Tell us more. -- kai ponte www.perfectreign.com || www.livebeans.com
linux - genuine windows replacement part
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On Thu, 2006-03-16 at 07:36 -0800, Kai Ponte wrote:
I bought Suse Professional 9.3 some time ago, but only used it
Now it seems there are many different versions from Novell/Suse, plus
occasionaly. there
is OpenSuse. I will soon be using SUSE in a commercial enviroment, and was wondering which version I should get at home in order to stay in sync with work-related stuff. I think I will be using SLES.
AFAIK:
SLES = Suse Linux Enterprise Server. Not a workstation. You won't be using this.
NLD = Novell Linux Desktop - a.k.a. SuSE 9.2 or 9.3 soon to be replaced by SUSE Enterprise Desktop. (I think.)
IIRC NLD is actually built on top of 9.1. {snip}
On Friday 17 March 2006 00:57, Mike McMullin wrote:
IIRC NLD is actually built on top of 9.1.
Both SLES 9 and NLD 9 are derived from 9.1. SLES 10 and SLED 10 will be derived from 10.1 -- Certified: Yes. Certifiable: of course! jabber ID: anders@rydsbo.net
On Fri, 2006-03-17 at 01:10 +0100, Anders Johansson wrote:
On Friday 17 March 2006 00:57, Mike McMullin wrote:
IIRC NLD is actually built on top of 9.1.
Both SLES 9 and NLD 9 are derived from 9.1. SLES 10 and SLED 10 will be derived from 10.1
Interesting to know. NLD9 and SLES9 will have a life cycle overlapping SLES10 and NLD10 by about three years. Can Novell make the upgrade\increase in purchase price worth whatever extra cost will be involved?
On Friday 17 March 2006 01:20, Mike McMullin wrote:
Interesting to know. NLD9 and SLES9 will have a life cycle overlapping SLES10 and NLD10 by about three years. Can Novell make the upgrade\increase in purchase price worth whatever extra cost will be involved?
If you have a support contract for SLES 9 you can get SLES 10 as part of that contract. There has just been a general change in the way the low end support contracts are sold, but there won't be a difference between SLES 9 and 10 I'm not sure about SLED 10, to be honest. I assume the contracts are similar or the same, but I haven't seen anything in writing about it -- Certified: Yes. Certifiable: of course! jabber ID: anders@rydsbo.net
On Friday 17 March 2006 01:20, Mike McMullin wrote:
Interesting to know. NLD9 and SLES9 will have a life cycle overlapping SLES10 and NLD10 by about three years.
Incidentally, make that 5 years. the 9 series was released in 2004, and the life span is 7 years, so they'll be around until 2011 -- Certified: Yes. Certifiable: of course! jabber ID: anders@rydsbo.net
On Fri, 2006-03-17 at 04:55 +0100, Anders Johansson wrote:
On Friday 17 March 2006 01:20, Mike McMullin wrote:
Interesting to know. NLD9 and SLES9 will have a life cycle overlapping SLES10 and NLD10 by about three years.
Incidentally, make that 5 years. the 9 series was released in 2004, and the life span is 7 years, so they'll be around until 2011
Thanks for the correction. I had thought the life span to be five years total. I may have to buy of copy of SLED10 for the laptop, depending of course on getting the video (ati) and wi-fi issues resolved.
On Thu, Mar 16, 2006 at 06:57:19PM -0500, Mike McMullin wrote:
On Thu, 2006-03-16 at 07:36 -0800, Kai Ponte wrote:
I bought Suse Professional 9.3 some time ago, but only used it
Now it seems there are many different versions from Novell/Suse, plus
occasionaly. there
is OpenSuse. I will soon be using SUSE in a commercial enviroment, and was wondering which version I should get at home in order to stay in sync with work-related stuff. I think I will be using SLES.
AFAIK:
SLES = Suse Linux Enterprise Server. Not a workstation. You won't be using this.
NLD = Novell Linux Desktop - a.k.a. SuSE 9.2 or 9.3 soon to be replaced by SUSE Enterprise Desktop. (I think.)
IIRC NLD is actually built on top of 9.1.
Correct. And NLD 9 is a maintained product, so it will exists for some more years. Its follower is SLED 10. Ciao, Marcus
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