Suse 10 retail or Evaluation edition?

[josh609]

What is the main difference? I'm downloading the evaluation edition now. Has anyone tried it, what do you think about it?

 

[SleepWalkerX]

I think the retail edition just gives you the manual, box, and support from novell. The evaluation isn't time based or anything and contains some proprietary software like flash, java, and others. The OSS edition only contains open source software.

I'm running the Suse 10.0 eval and I'm in love with it. I got my brother to settle with it after becoming frustrated with Ubuntu.

 

[josh1413]

Originally posted by: SleepWalkerX
I think the retail edition just gives you the manual, box, and support from novell. The evaluation isn't time based or anything and contains some proprietary software like flash, java, and others. The OSS edition only contains open source software.

I'm running the Suse 10.0 eval and I'm in love with it. I got my brother to settle with it after becoming frustrated with Ubuntu.

I loved Suse 9.1 Personal. I'm looking forward to using Suse 10.

One question, how does it handle a widescreen monitior, do you know?

 

[MadRat]

I love the 'SuSE Watcher' update service. Even Ubuntu seems to have copied it with their "Adept" package updater.

 

[unmerited]

Still using Suse 9.3 (great by the way), haven't seen the need to upgrade but I might one of these days.
I really like Yast, makes it easy to update and install programs.

unmerited

 

[zbalat]

Originally posted by: josh1413

Originally posted by: SleepWalkerX
I think the retail edition just gives you the manual, box, and support from novell. The evaluation isn't time based or anything and contains some proprietary software like flash, java, and others. The OSS edition only contains open source software.

I'm running the Suse 10.0 eval and I'm in love with it. I got my brother to settle with it after becoming frustrated with Ubuntu.

I loved Suse 9.1 Personal. I'm looking forward to using Suse 10.

One question, how does it handle a widescreen monitior, do you know?

I have a 19" widescreen with a native resolution of 1440x900. In SUSE 10.0 1440x900 is supported but only in 16 bit color.

 

[SleepWalkerX]

Originally posted by: josh1413

Originally posted by: SleepWalkerX
I think the retail edition just gives you the manual, box, and support from novell. The evaluation isn't time based or anything and contains some proprietary software like flash, java, and others. The OSS edition only contains open source software.

I'm running the Suse 10.0 eval and I'm in love with it. I got my brother to settle with it after becoming frustrated with Ubuntu.

I loved Suse 9.1 Personal. I'm looking forward to using Suse 10.

One question, how does it handle a widescreen monitior, do you know?

Not sure, but when I looked through a monitor list in sax2 I saw a crapload of monitors. Which monitor do you have?