Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Thu 23rd Nov 2006 22:07 UTC, submitted by Philipp Esselbach
openSUSE 10.2 RC1 has been released: "I'm glad to announce Release Candidate 1 of openSUSE 10.2 codename Basilisk Lizard. It contains a large number of enhancements and updates done by the open source community and Novell's development teams. Screenshot walkthrough here.
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Virtually nothing, apart from the 'Enterprise' badge which Novell slaps on SLED to try and sell it for a grossly inflated fee.
Gossly inflated fee to who, someone trying to use it on their play machine? Yeah maybe.
Here's some perspective from the other side. I can buy a license for SLED at $.50, compared to $20 per desktop of Windows. I can get Novell support for SLED, can't for openSuse. I can run the Novell client on SLED, not openSuse. I can run the cross platform groupwise client on SLED, not openSuse(at least it's not supported). I can tie the workstation login to authenticate against eDirectory easily with SLED, not with openSuse. I'm sure there's more in SLED that fits my environment far more than openSuse(and Ubuntu, Fedora, Slack, and Gentoo for that matter). The point is, until you're actually in an "enterprise" environment, don't crap over something that is geared towards organizational networks and not mom's computer.
I'm typing this on my laptop at home running Ubuntu, because I don't need an enterprise distribution at home. Work on the other hand...
Edited 2006-11-24 03:53