A far as I can see, SLES is certainly a step in another direction from OpenSuSE 10.0. With OpenSuSE 10.0, one could (if one wanted) select a text-only installation with
no X-Server whatsoever, where the SLES installer requires some kind of X to be installed. Text-only is ideal for the data center and servers in general. You usually don't want to waste CPU time on a GUI unless your support staff can't handle being locked into a console. The irony here is that there is not much of use to be done outside of the command prompt in the UNIX world. Sure, there are GUI front-end applications that are really just running the CLI utilities for you, but that isn't really the same. It saddens me that the *UX world is slipping down the slope toward the same "building for the lowest common denominator" philosophy that Microsoft and Apple have upheld for so long.
Of course, you really only find this behavior in the realm of the "Linux for the masses" distro. i.e. Redhat, SuSE, Fedora, yada...
Debian and Slackware are still, in my opinion, the premier Linux distributions and are the only real choices for non-hobbyist systems.
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