[ale] anyone played with SLED 10 yet?

[James Taylor]

SLED 10 is very nice, but I prefer SUSE10.1 for two reasons.
SLED 10 does not include all of the packages that 10.1 has, and will not be updated as often.
A large part of the SLED10 user enhancements depend on running Gnome, which I dislike intensely.
There is a price issue, but since my company is a Novell partner, I don't pay extra for it.

By the way, with SUSE 10.1 (and previous), you can get all the media codecs ( including enabling DVD playback) by adding packman.links2linux.org to you installation sources.  This works with YOU, SMART and , maybe, YUM.
The only caveat is that you have to install libdvdcss separately, but there's a nice script that will handle that for you available on the site.

-jt


James Taylor
The East Cobb Group, Inc.
678-697-9420
james.taylor at eastcobbgroup.com
http://www.eastcobbgroup.com


>>> On Thu, Jun 29, 2006 at 11:20 AM, in message
<200606291120.42411.paul_tbot at pcartwright.com>, Paul Cartwright
<paul_tbot at pcartwright.com> wrote: 
> On Thu June 29 2006 11:10 am, KingBahamut wrote:
>> Im curious to hear about your experiences.
> 
> nice review from Linuxworld
> 
> http://www.linuxworld.com.au/index.php/id;572131177;fp;4;fpid;2
> 
> SLED 10 isn't going to be free like SUSE, is it??
> I wonder if they add DVD playback...
> I've got SUSE 10.1, no longer have it installed, it was replaced by 
> UBUNTU on my laptop..