sles vs open suse

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sles vs open suse

Post by eddie » Thu May 22, 2008 5:00 am

I am dling sles desktop and server evaluation versions. I will be interesting to compare opensuse vs sles desktop. Has anyone else done this?

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Re: sles vs open suse

Post by Patrick » Thu May 22, 2008 6:04 am

SLED/SLES is the enterprise version. The packages tend to be older then openSUSE. SLED/SLES is Novell's answer to RHEL. Enterprise distros are meant to be on the machine for several years and updated sporatically (service packs). openSUSE releases every 6-9 months and has the usual latest and greatest new packages.
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Re: sles vs open suse

Post by Tsuroerusu » Thu May 22, 2008 11:23 am

Patrick wrote:openSUSE releases every 6-9 months and has the usual latest and greatest new packages.
They are on an 8-month cycle, to be exact.
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Re: sles vs open suse

Post by eddie » Thu May 29, 2008 12:52 am

I had a problem with the downloads, I probably will not put anymore time in to it.

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