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On Tue, Mar 24, 2015 at 05:06:38PM -0700, Yasha Karant 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.
> 
> Yasha Karant

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