SuSE Linux

[Jarod Wilson]

On Tue, 2008-05-06 at 10:49 -0400, Coleman Kane wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I made a comment yesterday about SuSE Linux...
> 
>       * SLED stands for "SuSE Linux Enterprise Desktop" and is the
>         desktop-linux distribution that they provide. ("Sled")
>       * SLES stands for "SuSE Linux Enterprise Server" and is the
>         server-linux distribution that they provide. ("Sles")
> 
> Apologies to anyone that I confused.... they've gone through a number of
> renaming cycles since being SuSE GmbH (now just a division of Novell,
> Inc.).
> 
> For those interested, this is also one of the few Server Distros that
> I've found to use OpenLDAP by default as the "passwd database", rather
> than the flat files in /etc/.
> 
> Red Hat Enterprise Linux, RHEL (sometimes pronounced "Our-Hell" by many
> a disillusioned sysadmin), is analogous to SLES, while Fedora is more
> analogous to SLED.

No. Fedora is more analogous to openSUSE. SLED and SLES share the bulk
of their package base. Its more like this: SLES is analogous to Red Hat
Enterprise Linux Server, SLED is analogous to Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Workstation.



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Jarod Wilson
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