[opensuse] Diff. between OpenSuSE and SuSE Linux Enterprise
Hi, For years i was a SuSE Linux user, somewhere between 5.3 and 9.0, i believe. Then, i changed for reasons that doesn't matter now. I'm changing jobs and i'm going to work on Enterprise Linux. I'm already downloading OpenSuSE too see hop it goes now. My questions is what are the differences between OpenSuSE and SuSE Enterprise Linux ? Is something like RHEL/Fedora ? Warm Regards, Mário Gamito -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
I assume you are talking SLED (Enterprise Desktop) and OpenSuse. My understanding when I checked was that SLED would not be updated as much since it's meant for the Enterprise world and they do not typically do updates on the same schedule we would for a home or some other system. An Enterprise usually rolls out a desktop setup and keeps it until they check and certify any changes. SLED will be like that - updates checked throughly but not as often as OpenSusue. OpenSuse will be for those who want a tested but updated more often release. I understand there are differences in what comes with SLED vs OpenSUSE. Fedora is really an experimental test distro for RHEL so comparing OpenSuse with it is not really accurate since OpenSuse releases are stable, production ready. On Wednesday 27 December 2006 14:31, Mário Gamito wrote:
Hi,
For years i was a SuSE Linux user, somewhere between 5.3 and 9.0, i believe. Then, i changed for reasons that doesn't matter now.
I'm changing jobs and i'm going to work on Enterprise Linux. I'm already downloading OpenSuSE too see hop it goes now.
My questions is what are the differences between OpenSuSE and SuSE Enterprise Linux ?
Is something like RHEL/Fedora ?
Warm Regards, Mário Gamito
-- Brett I. Holcomb -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
Brett I. Holcomb wrote:
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Fedora is really an experimental test distro for RHEL so comparing OpenSuse with it is not really accurate since OpenSuse releases are stable, production ready.
You're kidding, right? -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
No. My understanding and the explanation I was given is that OpenSuse releases - not the betas - are much more stable than Fedora Core is. On Wednesday 27 December 2006 15:54, Thomas Hertweck wrote:
Brett I. Holcomb wrote:
[...]
Fedora is really an experimental test distro for RHEL so comparing OpenSuse with it is not really accurate since OpenSuse releases are stable, production ready.
You're kidding, right?
-- Brett I. Holcomb -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
On 2006/12/27 16:11 (GMT-0500) Brett I. Holcomb apparently typed:
On Wednesday 27 December 2006 15:54, Thomas Hertweck wrote:
Brett I. Holcomb wrote:
Fedora is really an experimental test distro for RHEL so comparing OpenSuse with it is not really accurate since OpenSuse releases are stable, production ready.
You're kidding, right?
No. My understanding and the explanation I was given is that OpenSuse releases - not the betas - are much more stable than Fedora Core is.
Updating on Fedora has a different meaning than on other distros. My latest updates to Fedora 5, the release previous to the most recent, and well over 6 months old at the time I updated, got me a 2.6.18-1.2200 kernel to replace the 2.6.15-1.2054 FC5 was released with. Surely such software updating that involves more than just security updates can't be as stable. -- "Let your conversation be always full of grace." Colossians 4:6 NIV Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 Felix Miata *** http://mrmazda.no-ip.com/ -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
As long as the updates are to stable released versions I don't consider that a problem. For the kernel I do my own updates by downloading and building and don't allow the system to update for me. For anything else if there is a new, released, non-beta version I'll probably update to it anyway. I do not do alphas, betas, release candiates, etc. On Wednesday 27 December 2006 17:04, Felix Miata wrote:
On 2006/12/27 16:11 (GMT-0500) Brett I. Holcomb apparently typed:
On Wednesday 27 December 2006 15:54, Thomas Hertweck wrote:
Brett I. Holcomb wrote:
Fedora is really an experimental test distro for RHEL so comparing
No. My understanding and the explanation I was given is that OpenSuse releases - not the betas - are much more stable than Fedora Core is.
Updating on Fedora has a different meaning than on other distros. My latest updates to Fedora 5, the release previous to the most recent, and well over 6 months old at the time I updated, got me a 2.6.18-1.2200 kernel to replace the 2.6.15-1.2054 FC5 was released with. Surely such software updating that involves more than just security updates can't be as stable. -- "Let your conversation be always full of grace." Colossians 4:6 NIV
Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409
Felix Miata *** http://mrmazda.no-ip.com/
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Brett I. Holcomb wrote:
On Wednesday 27 December 2006 15:54, Thomas Hertweck wrote:
Brett I. Holcomb wrote:
[...] Fedora is really an experimental test distro for RHEL so comparing OpenSuse with it is not really accurate since OpenSuse releases are stable, production ready.
You're kidding, right?
No. My understanding and the explanation I was given is that OpenSuse releases - not the betas - are much more stable than Fedora Core is.
Or in other words: you have no experiences with FC systems and (as it seems) with production systems in general but you make the statement that "opensuse releases are much more stable than FC releases and opensuse releases are ready for production". Did I get this right? Well, although I like opensuse I think reality has significantly differed from your statement in 2006... Cheers, Th. PS: Brett, please read http://www.river.com/users/share/etiquette/edit.html before you reply to any other email on this list. No top-posting, please. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
onsdag 27 december 2006 23:25 skrev Thomas Hertweck:
PS: Brett, please read http://www.river.com/users/share/etiquette/edit.html before you reply to any other email on this list. No top-posting, please.
Please note that the document referred to in that URL does not in any way forbid top-posting. In fact, it doesn't forbid any style at all, but only encourages posters to edit quotes, and discourages certain patterns, but I can't find anything in that document against a sensibly quoted top-post. /Lennart PS: It also discourages the use of PS. ;-) PPS: But anyway, who'd really expect 'netters to adher to rules? <:-) -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
On Thu, 2006-12-28 at 10:08 +0100, Lennart Börjeson wrote:
onsdag 27 december 2006 23:25 skrev Thomas Hertweck:
PS: Brett, please read http://www.river.com/users/share/etiquette/edit.html before you reply to any other email on this list. No top-posting, please.
Please note that the document referred to in that URL does not in any way forbid top-posting.
Then try this one: http://en.opensuse.org/Opensuse_mailing_list_netiquette It as well is not a "rule" but a recommendation so that the archives are easier to follow. -- Ken Schneider UNIX since 1989, linux since 1994, SuSE since 1998 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
Mário Gamito wrote:
Hi,
For years i was a SuSE Linux user, somewhere between 5.3 and 9.0, i believe. Then, i changed for reasons that doesn't matter now.
I'm changing jobs and i'm going to work on Enterprise Linux. I'm already downloading OpenSuSE too see hop it goes now.
My questions is what are the differences between OpenSuSE and SuSE Enterprise Linux ?
SLED is mostly an openSUSE with the Gnome desktop (see the 10.2 Gnome desktop). The other special Novell product is Zen, a complete supervisor programm, I don't know if it's included in SLED jdd -- http://www.dodin.net http://dodin.org/mediawiki/index.php/GPS_Lowrance_GO -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
On Wed, 2006-12-27 at 21:30 +0100, jdd wrote:
Mário Gamito wrote:
Hi,
For years i was a SuSE Linux user, somewhere between 5.3 and 9.0, i believe. Then, i changed for reasons that doesn't matter now.
I'm changing jobs and i'm going to work on Enterprise Linux. I'm already downloading OpenSuSE too see hop it goes now.
My questions is what are the differences between OpenSuSE and SuSE Enterprise Linux ?
SLED is mostly an openSUSE with the Gnome desktop (see the 10.2 Gnome desktop).
Gnome is the default but KDE is available for install. -- Ken Schneider UNIX since 1989, linux since 1994, SuSE since 1998 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
Kenneth Schneider wrote:
Gnome is the default but KDE is available for install.
yes, but the Novell work on human interface is for Gnome only, and only Gnome is advertised in Novell's meetings about SLES/SLED so a people coming from outside to a default SLED system is prone to have to cope with Gnome :-( jdd -- http://www.dodin.net http://dodin.org/mediawiki/index.php/GPS_Lowrance_GO -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
On Wednesday 27 December 2006 12:30, jdd wrote:
SLED is mostly an openSUSE with the Gnome desktop (see the 10.2 Gnome desktop).
But you can choose KDE desktop, right? Bob -- Bob Smits Ladysmith BC Phone 250-245-2553 Fax 250-245-5531 Email bob@rsmits.ca -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 The Wednesday 2006-12-27 at 12:58 -0800, Robert Smits wrote:
SLED is mostly an openSUSE with the Gnome desktop (see the 10.2 Gnome desktop).
But you can choose KDE desktop, right?
You can choose both gnome and kde on both the opensuse and enterprise versions. - -- Cheers, Carlos E. R. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Made with pgp4pine 1.76 iD8DBQFFlHo7tTMYHG2NR9URAg8MAJ9xon3xX+Vc3iqAAjG5zuaV5hfUmQCfU/34 ZtKTMIzZvkYOGemKexC+bEU= =tz6G -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
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