On Tue, Mar 24, 2015 at 8:06 PM, Yasha Karant <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
> I fully realise that this is a SL list (along with the occasional mention of
> RHEL, CentOS, etc.). I currently am using X86-64 SL 7 on my workstation.
> Our primary research compute engine is using X86-64 SL 6 with MPI and Nvidia
> CUDA. A colleague here refuses to allow the migration from SL 6 to SL 7
> despite my success in migrating my workstation (with Mate as I personally
> dislike both Gnome 3 and KDE Plasma having now had to use both). Because my
> laptop is over 5 years old, I acquired a new HP ZBook 15 mobile workstation,
> provisioned to support a 64 bit X86-64 OS. I was planning to install SL 7,
> but now need to decide between that and OpenSUSE 13.2 or possibly, if can we
> afford the licensing fee, SLES 12 or SLED 12. I have looked at the OpenSUSE
> listserve more or less equivalent to this one, and find fewer professional
> threads and discussions, although it does seem considerably better than what
> I recall a student showed me from Ubuntu (Debian derivative). I am not
> asking for any postings back to this list; however, is there anyone with SL
> experience who also has OpenSUSE or SLES experience? Advice would be most
> appreciated. I am going to be installing OpenSUSE 13.2 on the new laptop,
> but backing off to SL 7 if it proves unsatisfactory. I particularly am
> interested in OpenSUSE in production university or research entity
> environments -- not enthusiast home use to replace, say, MS Windows or even
> Mac OS X.

IIUC you're looking at installing another distro because, judging from
some of your previous posts, some of SL's packages are too old and
rebuilding the Fedora SRPMs isn't as straightforward as you'd like if
not impossible.

So why don't you use Fedora? A release is supported for 13 months as
opposed to the 18 months of OpenSUSE. Are the extra 5 months reason
enough to switch to a different distro? Fedora'll be far more familiar
and will show you what SL-next-gen will look like.

I don't know SUSE (or OpenSUSE for that matter) but won't you
encounter the same problems as with SL since it's an LTS enterprise
distro?