Silviu Marin-Caea wrote: > Rephrase: I would think that for a corporate executive's laptop, > stability, service and support of SLED is preferred by the IT.
But you have yet to explain why. And as I've been saying, it's purely down to policy. I've spent a lot of my working life in large IBM installations - some places prefer to leave all maintenance to IBM, some even outsource it to IBM. Other places have departments of e.g. 20-30 people dabbling away in the OS all day (and night occasionally) to get that very last bit of performance. For the former, applying a maintenance patch is a matter of course, for the latter, each and every patch provided by IBM will be scrutinized to make sure it doesn't upset anything. I don't see why it should be any different for using SUSE Linux - some places will be quite happy to get a SLEx release and install maintenance when and as provided by SUSE, other places will have a more hands-on approach and do everything themselves. All down to IT policy (and skills available). >> maintenance? We have a number of systems where that has long been >> the case - no trouble maintaining them sofar. The oldest is a server >> still running 7.1. > > Now assume that business requires that you need to install something > new on that. It is a PITA, too much effort & time. Well, perhaps - I'd just get the source and build it. But of course such an old system rarely needs anything new - that's why it's being kept like that. /Per Jessen, Zürich --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
