Re: What do you think about an openSLES distro?

Exactly the same point here.


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From: "Clark Gaylord" <[email protected]>
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Subject: Re: [suse-sles-e] 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).
>
> --
> Clark Gaylord
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> ... thumbed on my treo ...
> -----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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