Yasha, Did you ask your colleagues why they refuse to upgrade? My experience with suse goes back to the early days of fedora. The reason I looked into going suse - i was fedup with tons of fedora updates that were constantly breaking something. And I could not get updates for rh. With no pressing actual needs to use exactly suse, I quickly became frustrated with it - I had to re-learn tons of things, just to become comfortable enough to do my daily routines and support the system.
On Mar 26, 2015 6:14 AM, "Tom H" <tomh0...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Tue, Mar 24, 2015 at 8:06 PM, Yasha Karant <ykar...@csusb.edu> 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. > > IIUC you're looking at installing another distro because, judging from > some of your previous posts, some of SL's packages are too old and > rebuilding the Fedora SRPMs isn't as straightforward as you'd like if > not impossible. > > So why don't you use Fedora? A release is supported for 13 months as > opposed to the 18 months of OpenSUSE. Are the extra 5 months reason > enough to switch to a different distro? Fedora'll be far more familiar > and will show you what SL-next-gen will look like. > > I don't know SUSE (or OpenSUSE for that matter) but won't you > encounter the same problems as with SL since it's an LTS enterprise > distro? >
