Re: SUSE or OpenSUSE?

Beowulf wrote:
Don't know much about SUSE vs. OpenSUSE. Can anybody comment on how easy
or hard it is to find applications for OpenSUSE that would be normally
included with SUSE? I prefer to stick with opensource, free as in beer,
so OpenSUSE would appeal to me, unless the software is just not there for
OpenSUSE to be had using Yast/etc.

openSUSE is a community. A group of people. You could say that openSUSE
are all the SUSE users.

SUSE Linux is the distribution.

With 10.0 there was a SUSE Linux 10.0 and a SUSE Linux OSS 10.0. With
10.1 this difference is gone. There only will be a SUSE Linux 10.1. This
will be available in different forms. Mainly it exists in three parts.
1) The 5 CD's that are 100% OSS¹
2) 1 CD with dustribuatble but non-OSS software, like Java
3) FTP, all that that did not fit on the 6 CD's

The boxed DVD will have all of it. The downloadeable DVD will have
CD1-6, so is not true OSS.

¹OSS as defined. I think even pine will go on CD6 (sorry, to lazy to
check) because the licence is not clear and it is not real OSS. Other
examples are Java, Acroread and Opera. After 10.1 is out, they will look
into the OSS/non-OSS in more detail.
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