Thank you very much -- but I have no interest in your price list.  When 
I have installed OpenSUSE 13.2 and, if it is successful and useful, I 
shall share my observations with any SL list subscribers who may be 
interested.  If we had disposable resources, etc., I would not be facing 
this particular conundrum.

Yasha Karant

On 03/24/2015 05:18 PM, Konstantin Olchanski wrote:
> Price list:
>
> answers: $10
> researched answers: $20
> correct answers: $100
> actionable answers: $200
>
> K.O.
>
>
> 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