Which One Should I Run ( Personal Or Prof.)

Originally posted by mack@Nov 10 2004, 15:06
I think you misunderstood my questions. I simply am trying to learn more about the distros available. I am running suse 9.1 personal. I just wanted to learn what the profressional version does or has that other distros dont. I never once mentioned that money was a issue. I was interested why some are free and some cost money and differences between them.

There is a ftp install. If you have personal then basically you know pro. Pro is everything personal is plus at least about 1000 more apps included. I'm not sure how many actually come on the pro version.

The dfference between personal and professional is that personal gives you enough to have a GUI and maybe run very basic apps. Professional comes with tools most people would need like compiling tools, server apps like samba and apache, and a few other commercial apps that you will not get in personal. If you went the ftp way, you get everything you would with buy the pro version minus the commercial apps.

In a few words, SuSE personal and SuSE professional have the same differences as XP home and XP professional.
With the home versions you will be able to browse the Internet and have some applications running.
Once you ask some office applications or setting up even a small home network, you need the professional.
As there is some tweaking to do in SuSE personal and that most of those who need tweaking have to download the professional, I still am wondering why Microsoft did not abandonned the home version as Novell has.
Home versions are frustrating in any OS.