SuSE

[Bill Campbell]

On Sat, Feb 12, 2005, Bruce Marshall wrote:
>On Saturday 12 February 2005 06:31 am, Man-wai Chang wrote:
>> What're the differences between SuSe 9.1 pro and personal?
>>
>> can I just use SuSE 9.2 personal to setup a server (like I did with
>> Caldera OpenLinux Workstation 3.1)?
>>
>> > And there's also APT for SuSE....  but I've never touched that.
>
>The personal edition lacks some of the packages that are in the PRO version.  
>Although all the peices *may* be there to set up a server, I would imagine 
>you would find something missing.  The Pro version is best.   And buy the 
>upgrade package if you're short of sheckles....  The only different between 
>the upgrade and the Boxed version is that the boxed version contains more 
>printed matter...  books...   You probably don't need them and I think they 
>are on the media anyway.

In particular, the personal editions lack many of the development libraries
so if you are planning on building other open source packages you may well
run into trouble.

While one may build the appropriate development packages from the source
rpms, I would strongly suggest going with the Professional.

Bill
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