On Monday 30 July 2007 14:51:58 John Mok wrote: > Hi, > > It is a newbie question. Is OpenSuSE is comparable to SLES9 in terms of > Stability, like CentOS to RHEL? or it is a desktop Linux distribution? > > Thank you, John Mok
Firstly if you had a SLES license you'd use SLES10 as it's a free upgrade. OpenSUSE is a community Linux if that's what you mean by 'desktop Linux distro' but it has all the same functionality as the Enterprise version (closer in concept to Fedora than CentOS, but miles better IMO). OpenSUSE comes without warranty or support (other than installation support if you bought the boxed version), is more bleeding edge than SLES thus less tried & tested, patches are only released for 18 months after the launch date before you're expected to upgrade (not ideal if you have many machines running it) SLES it's 7 years. I've always been happy with stability, I've been using it constantly for 8 years, still think it's by far the best distro. If you're rolling out Linux across many servers or workstations you'd have to determine whether or not you'd want support, gurantees, management tools etc, if I was building something in a production environment then I would always go for an enterprise class OS however for my own desktop or less critical systems then OpenSUSE is perfect. Matthew -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
