From my use of SuSE 6.4 i386, I believe that they go to a lot of trouble in maintaining their distribution, and writing YAST/YAST2 etc. I find
Hi all, Michael's link to the SuSE information was extremely useful. I believe that what SuSE are doing in splitting up the distribution into a personal & professional version is actually a very good thing. I believe that as the Linux OS begins to enter the mainstream, that this distinction will clearly become evident. The personal user will still get good value for money, with not too excessive documentation, while the professional user will be getting additional documentation and packages + additional support. these tools invaluable on my workstation - as a central manipulation centre. I rarely need to move into the configuration files themselves. It seems that many of the personal users are more concerned about price, and less on service - whilst the profesional user is more concerned about getting the system installed and working as smoothly, and quickly, as possible - ie. service... I believe that the SuSE distribution prices are still extremely reasonable - especially when compared to MS and Redhat (my goodness - why on earth does RedHat charge so much - I have not actually been that impressed with their distribution - SuSE is far more organised... and complete...) Anyway - just a few thoughts and my perspectives... I will continue to support SuSE as long as they continue to provide excellent distributions. Best regards, Des Aubery... (adTherm Technologies, East London, E.Cape, South Africa) Michael Galloway wrote:
there is a table on the .de site that lists the differences between personel/professional:
http://www.suse.de/de/produkte/susesoft/linux/pers_vs_prof.html
-- michael
On Mon, 31 Jul 2000, Alex Angerhofer wrote:
To add to the confusion or perhaps to help relieve it:
After looking up SuSE's German home page which explains in detail the contents of the new 7.0, my reading of this is the following:
- The Professional version is what people here on the list have been referring to as "DeLuxe". It seems to be the same type of distribution that we have so far been getting, i.e., a 6-CD pack with lots of "stuff" (most of which I never actually used).
- The Personal version is a scaled down one. The main differences seem to be: the professional version has KDE 2.0 (beta) whereas the personal version has still 1.1.2. This seems odd as I would have expected the professional version to go with a more tried and true system rather than the bleedign edge. Other stuff that the personal version does not include is: video conferencing software, LDAP server, server tools, auto installer, development tools, Java 2, beowulf clustering, and the know-how handbook. Indeed, probably most of this stuff is unnecessary for the casual home user.
- The German web site also lists the new software that ends up in 7.0 compared to the 6.4 version. Unfortunately, it is not entirely clear which of the new packets make it into the Personal and the Professional versions.
Best regards, Alex.
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