Re: What do you think about an openSLES distro?

This is first problem with SuSe.

Second is that they do not pay much attention to yast2 (keeping numerous 
problems , for example why I can't configure PPTP via it in a few clicks; 
why backups are not well configured thru it, etc), whichj is really one of 
the best thing s in SuSe.

Third, while their beta testing is closed, they will always have releases of 
the beta quality so we always mneed to wait few updates until system becasme 
stable (it is true with sles9 sp4, sles9 release, sles10 sp2 - all 3 was 
unusable until few updates, just because beta testing was not adequiate). if 
you compare with rhel - they use open beta program so people start making 
software for the new releases before they are cleaned into the production, 
and it allows to test betas so well that official updates are almost 
error-less.


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Oxiel Enrique Contreras Vargas" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Tuesday, September 15, 2009 7:33 AM
Subject: Re: [suse-sles-e] What do you think about an openSLES distro?


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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