First look at SLED 11 (SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop)

Today I decided to launch vmware, and give SLED 11 a quick install and a very quick walk through.

SLED 11 is the second major release of the SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop from Novell and is based off of openSUSE 11.1 the free community supported version of Linux supported by Novell. SLED 11 is leaps and bounds ahead of SLED 10 and provides a much more robust package management stack, comes by default with GNOME 2.24.1 (which was the first version that had tabbed nautilus browsing) and has updates in all shipped applications (ie Tomboy, OpenOffice.org, Firefox, Bashee, etc).

One major advantage of SLED vs other Linux enterprise desktop solutions is the interoperability it has with other Microsoft products. SLED 11 ships with a Firefox that can run Silverlight content using the Mono Project based Moonlight, a tweaked version of go-OOo that supports more Microsoft Office formats and increase macro and vb compatibility. Evolution in SLED also ships supporting outlook PST formated files.

On some more SLED 11 specific topics I was dis-appointed to see that command-not-found wasn’t shipped installed be default like it was on openSUSE 11.1. However, it can be found on the repository and installed. To get it working you can read a previous blog I did about command-not-found here.

Now I’m done with the talking and will give you a nice visual gallery of the installation process along with a few shots from GNOME.

And here from GNOME which shows some of the basic packages and the default desktop:

Sorry I couldn’t give a more in-depth review, but I’ve been quite busy at work and no one was willing to give me one .. Doh!

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