Re: What do you think about an openSLES distro?

Agreed. We have often had the debate of CentOS/RHES vs OpenSUSE/SLES as combination strategies, where you want to have a free version for some applications and a paid version for others. CentOS/RHES almost always wins these arguments, despite what most of  us consider SUSE's technical superiority to be (notably XFS support and yast).

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-----Original Message-----
From: Oxiel Enrique Contreras Vargas <[email protected]>
Date: Tuesday, Sep 15, 2009 10:36 am
Subject: Re: [suse-sles-e] What do you think about an openSLES distro?
To: [email protected]

I think it would very good for Novell.
>
>I mean, most of RHEL installations i've seen in production were first CentOS, 
>most new admins, just graduated admins and undergraduates "admins", have in 
>their minds, that CentOS is a rock solid distro, which they can play and 
>learn, so they'll be prepared to work in a production environment with no 
>hassle at all because they ever used it.
>
>Kids at any university or new admins entering to linux, first ask, what to 
>learn ?, that can lead them to little effort and updates (security patches, 
>bugs, etc) while been low cost or even better free?, hard to say that our 
>beloved SuSE doesn't have an equality to that situation.
>
>So that's why i think Novell could get in there, and earn minds and hearts 
>with all this rookies, making them taste all we like from SuSE, and 
>guarantying them that their time invested in learning this "SuSEOS" or else 
>name will be the same as SLES when they do solid work.
>
>My few cents.
>
>Best regards
>
>Oxiel
>
>El Monday 14 September 2009 14:08:58 Alexei_Roudnev escribió:
>> Other option is to maintain some opensuse support for a long time. For now,
>> problem is that while I can combine CentOS + RedHat (using RehjHat or OL
>> for critical servers and CentOs for less critical or for developmemnt) I
>> can't do it with SuSe distro, because opensuse lost repository in 2 or 3
>> years (example - I don't need OpenSuSe 11; I neede OpenSuSe 10.2, but it is
>> not supported anymore). Even FreeBSD have better support, btw.
>>
>>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Ciro Iriarte" <[email protected]>
>> To: <[email protected]>
>> Sent: Sunday, September 13, 2009 3:52 PM
>> Subject: Re: [suse-sles-e] What do you think about an openSLES distro?
>>
>> > 2009/8/26 carlopmart <[email protected]>:
>> >> Hi all,
>> >>
>> >> Under opensuse-project mailing lists is exposed a recurrent over time
>> >> question: why doesn't exist an openSLES distro like CentOS for Red Hat??
>> >>
>> >> http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-project/2009-08/msg00703.html
>> >>
>> >> Same question it is hot on opensuse spanish discussions too...
>> >>
>> >> What do you think??
>> >> --
>> >> CL Martinez
>> >> carlopmart {at} gmail {d0t} com
>> >
>> > That would certainly be an option to fight CentOS, but will Novell
>> > release the patches to the public so that they can be rebuilt without
>> > the Novell branding?.
>> >
>> > Regards,
>> >
>> > --
>> > Ciro Iriarte
>> > http://cyruspy.wordpress.com
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