Anybody using SLED 10 yet?

[daveyboy]

Just thought I'd ask as I might have an interesting project ahead of me.

[webman]

Nope, never used it. I prefer Debian-based distros such as Ubuntu.

[daveyboy]

Christ - posted @5.24 - reply @5.26

 

Thats quick!

[CyberNerd]

What does SLED do that OpenSuSE (or any other distro) doesn't - apart from the support from Novell/Microsoft? Or do you need assurance that MS won't sue you ?

[NetworkGeezer]

@Cybernerd

 

Aren't Fedora and OpenSuse more exprimental than RHEL and SLED respectively. Abit like Debian's Test verses Stable branches?

 

I thought that's why you used CentOS rather than Fedora

[CyberNerd]

The last Suse I used was 10.1(I payed for it, but could use on as many machines as I liked - I supported SuSE this way since 8.1)

I was under the impression OpenSuSE is stable and the new name for SuSE (cost-free) and SLED is licensed per machine containing proprietary software - with a ban on copying ?

 

I got annoyed with SuSE and migrated to Ubuntu

Still use Centos for servers, but finding many things easier in ubuntu now....

[daveyboy]

@CyberNerd

 

I cant say just yet. I would like to get the project approved by those above me first.

 

But it has to be SLED - not even OpenSUSE.

[Geoff]

100% Ubuntu here. Using 6.06 for the long term support though.

[CyberNerd]

is a SLED demo available anywhere?, I'd like to see it

(but don't feel Novell need any more of my personal cash !)

[daveyboy]

SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 10 Download

 

Need to register though.

[CyberNerd]

thanks, downloading now.

already not impressed though - no bittorrent, epic registration and I can't even complete the reg here and wget it from school !!!!

[daveyboy]

Why cant you complete the reg?

[CyberNerd]

I did, but my usual tactic when at home is to do the web registration here then log into school using ssh, copy the download location and

 wget [url]http://server/file.tgz[/url]

so that the file arrives on my desktop in hte morning, saves burning CD's etc