Thanks for the feedback. What's on the DVD? > On Tue, 25 Nov 2003 11:05:07 -0600 (CST) > "Jim Streit" <jimstreit at northlans.com> wrote: > >> I haven't spent much time with Suse, but does anyone really know the >> differences between Suse 9 Personal, Suse 9 Professional and Suse >> Linux Enterprise Server (SLES) 8. I don't care much about the GUI >> interface, this will be on a server where most of the maintenance is >> done via the command line. I'm looking if there is any advantages / >> disadvantages for each version when running web, mail, dns, database >> types of services. > > I don't think SuSE Personal vs Professional is TOO much different. > Unless they changed it in version 9.0, the Professional comes with a few > more packages and a DVD as well as 7 or 8 CD's. And it comes with more > documentation. I usually get the Professional version. I don't have > any experience with SLES, but it's their server version obviously. I > think if you are running your own server you can get away with using > Personal or Professional. > > Yast is a pain, even worse is YOU (Yast Online Update), but there are > command line versions. I typically do not install RPMs for thinks like > web/dns/mail/db servers, I like to have full control over these, so I > build from source. I use SuSE's RPMs for development tools/libs etc. > > I've been a SuSE user for a couple years now, they were the first distro > to recognize all my hardware on my bizarre Gateway. Lately though I've > been moving towards Debian for server type stuff. Also, if you are > thinking of running Oracle, SLES is the certified version, though it'll > work on Personal/Professional SuSE as well. > > HTH, > > Josh > > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org > https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list