SuSE Linux

[Coleman Kane]

On Tue, 2008-05-06 at 11:13 -0400, Jarod Wilson wrote:
> 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.
> 

I suppose that's a better comparison... I didn't even know RedHat sold a
desktop distro, but now that I check their site it is here:
http://www.redhat.com/rhel/desktop/

Well, enjoy!

-- 
Coleman Kane
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