Adam wrote:
> I wouldn't use it on the
> server-side either, mostly because I've been using distros with Red Hat
> style tools and layouts for years and don't fancy changing now.
Not very fond of SLES myself and trying to navigate the bastardisation which
is the remains of the Suse support site, which was merged badly into the
Novell site and now looks like a train wreck, is a pain in the backside.
Suse were everything open to you if you had a support contract, but Novell
have shown their Netware heritage by locking everything down to just what
you paid for, no more and no less. Less if you don't know exactly where you
can get it as the site is so user hostile it'll tie you up in knots. All of
which is a departure from going to RHN and being able to get every version
of RHEL with every update they ever released all in ISO format.
Enterprise level device support also isn't there with vendors pouring
development effort into getting easy to configure RH rpms out into the
market. If you've got SLES you get source, no tools, and away with you. It's
the second choice of two choices, supported in most cases because people
don't want to let RedHat lock them in to RH specific implementations.
Overall, it's big in Germany and if it didn't have IBM using it as part of
their ongoing but under the radar war with RedHat, it would probably have
vanished after SLES 8.
Mark.
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