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Review: SUSE Linux Enterprise Server |
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My biggest complaint about SLES 8 is SuSE's policy of long upgrade cycles. It sounds fine, but the reality is that, toward the end of the cycle, the media you buy will probably be useless. Declaring a year-long delay on shipping a new version doesn't stop new hardware from being released, nor does it halt the discovery of bugs. The net effect of long release cycles is you have to download and burn your own CD's. I recently found myself searching for and downloading a updated ISO, burning it to a CD-R, and starting over from scratch on my installation. Hopefully Novell will repair this brain-dead policy -- and throw in some decent enterprise-level support as well.
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 8 (SLES) is a server-optimized version of the vendor's Linux distribution. It represents a continuation of the company's tradition of producing solid product, with the added value being a level of consistency and portability up and down the enterprise food chain -- it provides the same APIs and basic layout running on anything from a humble commodity server to an IBM mainframe. This consistency is provided in large part by the United Linux effort, a consortium designed to establish a standard Linux platform (and compete with U.S. Linux front-runner Red Hat).
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| | read more | mail this link | score:6974 | -Ray, January 19, 2004 |
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