Hi, I’ve never tried SLES, but I want to know if it has many
differences with openSUSE as for example Red Hat with CentOS, the config
files are in the same place? there is applications that SLES have and
openSUSE don’t to do admin task?
VampirD
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SLES basically strips out extra packages that are not needed for an
enterprise server (for example, Compiz/XGL stuff) and also has versions of
packages which are more-proven for stability (not bleeding edge). The
Enterprise part is what gives you the stability (not bleeding edge stuff)
and the Server part of the name is what cuts out desktop/workstation
packages. SLED is similar but with desktop vs. server packages. OpenSUSE
does not differentiate in its media between desktop and server.
Good luck.
On 03/11/2010 12:22 PM, VampirD wrote:
> Hi, I’ve never tried SLES, but I want to know if it has many
> differences with openSUSE as for example Red Hat with CentOS, the config
> files are in the same place? there is applications that SLES have and
> openSUSE don’t to do admin task?
>
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I believe RHEL and CentOS are more similar than SLES and openSUSE because CentOS is built from RHEL SRPMs with the branding stripped off. I in fact have replaced in-situ, on an old server we don’t have a maintenance contract for anymore, a RHEL4 repo with CentOS repos and it worked the same, if not slightly better due to updates to CentOS packages.
That said, from brief experience with SLES, the filesystem layout is pretty much identical but SLES features may be reminiscent of older openSUSE releases simply because of the lag and stability requirement.
Hi
SLE11 is similar to openSUSE 11.1 whilst running older versions
security issues are backported. Sometime this year SP1 will be out
which would probably bring it up to the more recent versions of various
applications
You can always run SLED and add the SDK to give additional features
available on SLES (LAMP) which is supported for updates.
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On Thu, 2010-03-11 at 19:22 +0000, VampirD wrote:
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> Hi, I’ve never tried SLES, but I want to know if it has many
> differences with openSUSE as for example Red Hat with CentOS, the config
> files are in the same place? there is applications that SLES have and
> openSUSE don’t to do admin task?
SLED is a very limited subset of openSUSE.
SLES is an even more limited subset of openSUSE
in both cases, there might be a few things present that are NOT
available in openSUSE (due to licensing)
openSUSE is more current. SLED and SLES are snapshots in time. For
example,
SLED/SLES 11 are most similar to openSUSE 11.1. As openSUSE 11.3 and
future (??) versions come out, the difference grows. There’s a pretty
big difference between oS 11.1 and 11.2. This is where the Service
Packs sort of help for SLE. They are primarily designed to bring
support for the newer hardware available. Rarely, they might bring
some feature additions, but usually they DO NOT.
Thus the SLE platform usually does NOT receive feature/function
version updates package wise. It does receive SECURITY fixes and they
are back ported into the version that SLE supports (to purposely
avoid version feature/function change).
The FOSS ecosystem is inherently unstable… unstable in that it is
ALWAYS changing… mostly good… sometimes bad. By avoiding the
“change” portion of evolutionary FOSS, SLE avoids the “sometimes bad”
regressions that might occur (this doesn’t always work because
back porting needed security change can be risky without adopting
feature/function change). Thus SLE is more stable. Which might
be frustrating in a FOSS world, but comforting for most enterprise
users (where it ALWAYS has to work).
openSUSE and SLE is more similar to Fedora and Red Hat.
This has all been stated many, many, many times… FAQ?
