Suse Linux Question

[Shane]

Hey guys,

My Netbook which im getting comes with SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 10 installed.

Whats the diffrence between this version of Suse and the one thats free to download?

Thanks

 

[Carlton]

SLED is supported by Novell. OpenSuSE is supported by the community.

SLED 10 is getting quite old though. SLED 11 is current.
http://www.novell.com/products/desktop/

openSuSE is at 11.1 and is quite good. My OS of choice.
http://www.opensuse.org/en/

 

[Shane]

So other than it been supported by Novel,is it any better than Opensuse?

 

[fmw]

No, that's the only meaningful difference. Actually, if you like SuSe you may want to download Open Suse 11. That way you will have the current version. SuSe is one of the many Red Hat based distros and it is a good one.

 

[tlarkin]

Hey guys,

My Netbook which im getting comes with SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 10 installed.

Whats the diffrence between this version of Suse and the one thats free to download?

Thanks

For one it means you get direct support from Novell since they own SuSe now. It also means that paid engineers and developers work on it, not the open source community.

The open source version has nothing to do with Novell, Novell just supplies the source code and then tosses a few dollars at it and lets the community do the rest.

I have used SLED before and it is not a bad distro.

 

[Carlton]

If Novell would let you upgrade to SLED 11, I'd suggest that's the way to go. I would choose openSUSE 11.1 over SLED 10 though.