Re: [SLE] 9.1 Personal not worth it
From: Tibor Endredy (neongod_at_call.of.cthul.hu)
Date: 05/27/04
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To: suse-linux-e@suse.com Date: Thu, 27 May 2004 10:47:54 +0200
On Thursday 27 May 2004 01:52, Brooks wrote:
> If you're thinking about getting 9.1 just spend the extra money and buy 9.1
> Professional "upgrade". It seems like I can't load anything up because 9.1
> personal seems to lack a lot of libraries and other things that are likely
> in 9.1 Professional; especially since professional has a lot more software.
> Part of the reason I like Gnome is because of the applets that you can put
> in the toolbars, like weather and dictionary. I can't seem to load the kde
> versions of these because I don't have the dependencies required for these
> apps, and I can't get them off of my installation cd because they're not on
> it (yes, I've tried). I wish SuSE had stuck with what they had going. The
> extra ten bucks to get Gnome and a couple other windowmanagers was worth
> it.
Can't you download the extra packages needed from the Internet? There are Suse
ftp with tons of packages, rpm.phobe.net, rpmfind, etc. You just enter the
package name you need, select the Suse 9.x version, and yast will download
and install it for you. I've Suse 9.1 Pro, but I installed most of the
packages from the Internet, because there are many of them which newer, than
on the cd. (for example KDE3.2.2 or Gnome updates, which can be downloaded
freely, without any registration from www.suse.com)
The Personal version was made especially for novice users, because it does not
contain any developer packages, only one windows manager (KDE is very easy to
use I think, and it's preconfigured for daily usage in Suse), etc. For
example in Gnome you can't change the menu structure, which was very annoying
for me. In KDE this is for 2 clicks away.
Suse is mainly a KDE based distribution, there are other Gnome based distros,
like Redhat->Fedora. In Suse every tool like Sax2, Yast, YOU, etc is based on
QT gui engine and integrated to KDE. Like the Open Office is also integrated
to KDE.
Gnome in Suse is only an alternative choice, if somebody hates KDE. But I
think than he should not choose Suse :)
regards
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