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K.O. On Tue, Mar 24, 2015 at 05:06:38PM -0700, Yasha Karant wrote: > I fully realise that this is a SL list (along with the occasional > mention of RHEL, CentOS, etc.). I currently am using X86-64 SL 7 on > my workstation. Our primary research compute engine is using X86-64 > SL 6 with MPI and Nvidia CUDA. A colleague here refuses to allow > the migration from SL 6 to SL 7 despite my success in migrating my > workstation (with Mate as I personally dislike both Gnome 3 and KDE > Plasma having now had to use both). Because my laptop is over 5 > years old, I acquired a new HP ZBook 15 mobile workstation, > provisioned to support a 64 bit X86-64 OS. I was planning to > install SL 7, but now need to decide between that and OpenSUSE 13.2 > or possibly, if can we afford the licensing fee, SLES 12 or SLED 12. > I have looked at the OpenSUSE listserve more or less equivalent to > this one, and find fewer professional threads and discussions, > although it does seem considerably better than what I recall a > student showed me from Ubuntu (Debian derivative). I am not asking > for any postings back to this list; however, is there anyone with SL > experience who also has OpenSUSE or SLES experience? Advice would > be most appreciated. I am going to be installing OpenSUSE 13.2 on > the new laptop, but backing off to SL 7 if it proves unsatisfactory. > I particularly am interested in OpenSUSE in production university or > research entity environments -- not enthusiast home use to replace, > say, MS Windows or even Mac OS X. > > Yasha Karant -- Konstantin Olchanski Data Acquisition Systems: The Bytes Must Flow! Email: olchansk-at-triumf-dot-ca Snail mail: 4004 Wesbrook Mall, TRIUMF, Vancouver, B.C., V6T 2A3, Canada
