SuSE

[Robert L. Hemus]

On Sat, 2005-02-12 at 11:55 -0800, Bill Campbell wrote:
> 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
> --
I haven't checked the SuSE web page, but you could get a list of all of
the packages of 9.1 Pro vs. 9.1 Personal.  The list is quite different.
Bob