Hello,
I was browsing around Novell’s site and I ended up looking at Suse enterprise. I have been useing OpenSuse for a couple of months and I’m quite pleased with it. (By far my favorite version of Linux:) and I have used all the major versions)And I was just wondering what are the mojor differences between them other than support.
Just wondering
~J~
SLED is the business end. openSUSE is a bit of a testing ground really for the next release of SLED.
SLED is supported long term, where openSUSE is 18months~
SUSE Linux Lifetime - openSUSE
SLED is rock solid stability
openSUSE is, well I wouldn’t say bleeding edge, but up out there, but you can be bleeding edge with all the development repositories.
SLED and SLES have a much more stable base than openSUSE. It is sort of like comparing Debian Stable to testing or sid except more up to date. And it also has support from Novell.
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And updates also cost money after the “evaluation” period (which is an
evaluation for updates, not use of the product). Also new products are
not randomly thrown into SLE; for example SLE 10 shipped with Firefox 2.x
(current at the time) and it took a long time for even 3.0 to get in
there, and I’m not sure if 3.5 made it in as well though maybe it has by
now. Their being available is an exception to the rule. Typically the
only changes made to software are patches, not updates. Updates introduce
a lack of stability (along with new great features) and that is not seen
as desirable for an enterprise OS.
Feel free to try it, but stability is the big addition at the price of
new/more software. I should note that you can add packages from OpenSUSE
in many cases (I regularly add OpenSUSE packages to my SLED 11 x86_64 box
without issue) to get newer versions of stuff along with the SLE base’s
stability; that, however, is not supported.
Good luck.
darkness hacker wrote:
> SLED and SLES have a much more stable base than openSUSE. It is sort of
> like comparing Debian Stable to testing or sid except more up to date.
> And it also has support from Novell.
>
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I just got a new computer at work with the Suse Enterprise Destop 11. I use to have OpenSuse 10.2 (did not updated my old computer the past years). I was surprise not to have evolution email program in the yast2 available. Is it normal ? To install it I need to do it without yast2 isn’t it ? Then, I need to install other packages first to make the makefile run…It looks much less convinient than opensuse.
I am just thinking that I might install suse 11.2 as dual boot if it is too complicate for me to get what I need. What do you think ?
any advices are wellcome
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Weird… mine came w/evolution. The package name follows:
evolution-2.24.1.1-15.7
Good luck.
zabou wrote:
> I just got a new computer at work with the Suse Enterprise Destop 11. I
> use to have OpenSuse 10.2 (did not updated my old computer the past
> years). I was surprise not to have evolution email program in the yast2
> available. Is it normal ? To install it I need to do it without yast2
> isn’t it ? Then, I need to install other packages first to make the
> makefile run…It looks much less convinient than opensuse.
> I am just thinking that I might install suse 11.2 as dual boot if it is
> too complicate for me to get what I need. What do you think ?
>
> any advices are wellcome
>
>
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actually, by looking at the internet, I should have the file in my DVD at suse/i586/… which is not in the DVD the computer guy gave to me. I will ask him the full DVD. Is there one or 2 DVD ? (just to be sure to ask for the full thing).
Hi
One for the install and one with the src rpms. I recommend getting the
SDK as well. In future, please post over in the SLE forums at
http://forums.novell.com 
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Cheers Malcolm °¿° (Linux Counter #276890)
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