[NTLUG:Discuss] Thumbs up to SLES11SP1 VMWare edition

[David Stanaway]

  The truth is I don't expect very much out of enterprise support. I get 
it free** with SLES on VMWare so I'll take it.

If SLES goes the way of the dodo (caldera) which may well be on the 
cards, then I'll just test on a new platform and migrate again.

As far as getting into bed with SLES, I have a pretty small commitment.


On 10/17/2010 10:17 PM, Thomas Cameron wrote:
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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?
>
> - -- 
> Thomas
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