[NTLUG:Discuss] Thumbs up to SLES11SP1 VMWare edition

[Thomas Cameron]

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On 10/17/2010 12:10 PM, David Stanaway wrote:
>  I just migrated a critical function off some legacy hardware running
> Debian (Which I still love, but enterprise support is a ?) to a VM
> running SLES11
> 
> pretty much everything was able to be configured through yast. The only
> thing I was missing was libnetfilter_conntrack, libnfnetlink and
> conntrack which I had to build from source, and of course the custom
> perl modules I have that use them.
> 
> The only gotcha I had was with netbackup client wanting to backup
> proc/kcore in the ntp daemons chroot.
> 
> I definitely like this version better than an SLES9 system we got lumped
> with.

Just curious, why would you want to run any enterprise workload on a
distro with a very unclear future?

Novell is trying to split itself up and sell itself off, apparently
without much success...

They've tried aligning themselves with Microsoft, now with VMWare, and
they've made clear that to them, Open Source is just a loss leader to
hook customers into proprietary software.

Why would you want to get into bed with that?

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Thomas
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