Re: [SLE] SLES vs SL Pro

From: Preston Crawford (me_at_prestoncrawford.com)
Date: 06/06/04

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Date: Sun, 06 Jun 2004 08:36:14 -0700

    On Sat, 2004-06-05 at 23:15, Steve Reynolds wrote:
    > On Sunday 06 June 2004 13:48, C Hamel wrote:
    > > The short answer is... don't waste your time w/the Personal version. Get
    > > Pro. I got Personal twice, was disappointed (didn't learn the first
    > > time... <G>).
    >
    > Of course that depends on what you use your machines for. For example, if you
    > only use your machines at home or in an office as personal workstations, then
    > 9.1 Personal is perfectly adequate. If you want to network your machines, you
    > will need to download nfs-server from an FTP site, but that's hardly onerous.
    >
    > I think SuSE got the versions right, and I think the Personal version is very
    > good as long as you are happy using KDE.

    Yeah. If you have a machine that's never ever going to need anything
    other than QT-based binaries on it, go with Personal. Otherwise, go with
    Pro. I've done the personal thing once. It was a disaster. I couldn't
    install anything from source, of course, and then just imagine the
    process of downloading every devel library, compiler, etc. required to
    do a compilation of something as simple as lame. Not worth the trouble,
    in my book. With Pro I have everything on one DVD and THEN when I've
    installed I take and copy that DVD onto my hard drive, something like
    /opt/SuSEDVD/ and then change my install sources and then I never have
    to pop in a DVD or CD ever again, much less monkey around with trying to
    find the right libraries that should have been included later. I say buy
    Pro and then just buy it less often. I'd rather buy Pro and stick with
    it for a year and a half (the typical time it would take to buy say 3
    different versions of Personal) than to keep buying Personal.

    Preston 

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