On Mon, 2007-10-29 at 10:01 -0500, Bryen wrote: > > Do you happen to know if they have something like that for home users? > > > Well, Novell, as a business, is targeted towards corporate markets > rather than home markets. For the home market, openSuse would be the > alternative. I don't see Novell coming up with the wherewithal to set > up a tech support service that would be able to handle the influx of > home user support requests. That's a huge undertaking and would divert > Novell's focus away from their current strategy. > > Also, you need to remember that SLED isn't the same as openSuse. > OpenSuse has alot of packages right out of the box. But, SLED is > stripped down to only support the needs of a typical corporate > environment. There's less in there. For example, the Apache2 package > isn't included with SLED, because quite frankly, should a corporate user > be running a webserver from his desk? :-) > > That's not to say you CAN'T install Apache2 to a SLED box. It just > isn't on the DVD, that's all. > > A stripped down, non-bloated, corporate-needs operating system has > significant advantages in desktop management and reduced troubleshooting > processes. > > By the way, I also wanted to mention, another advantage of going the > Novell purchase route. You get a better quality of OpenOffice > installation. Sure you can get it for free from oo.org, but there are > serious compatibility issues with MS documents. Novell has tweaked > their own version of oOo to be better compatible with MS document > formats, and thus less complaints from users when they can't read/break > an MS document emailed to them. > > -- > ---Bryen--- >
Thank you, this is a very good explanation. In conclusion we can say Novell has a good solution for corporations (small or huge). For home users openSUSE would be their best choice. The only downside I see is the short life cycle of two years. Interesting point about oOo, I assume this version is also available in openSUSE? -- Regards, Aniruddha Please adhere to the OpenSUSE_mailing_list_netiquette http://en.opensuse.org/OpenSUSE_mailing_list_netiquette -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
