From: Michael T. Halligan (michael_at_halligan.org)
Date: Tue Mar 14 2006 - 19:03:06 CET
Message-Id: <5972E060-4AC4-4B57-B020-F00E887EF066@halligan.org> From: "Michael T. Halligan" <michael@halligan.org> Date: Tue, 14 Mar 2006 10:03:06 -0800 Subject: Re: [suse-sles-e] SLES License
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Lars,
Legally, Novell is not allowed to withhold access to the source
modifications that it makes to other people's
GPL'd software.
Michael T. Halligan
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BitPusher, LLC
http://www.bitpusher.com/
On Mar 14, 2006, at 1:54 AM, Lars Müller wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 14, 2006 at 04:42:48PM +0800, Leo wrote:
> [snip]
>> Anyone has the experience of manually update and patch?
>
> rpm as the command is your friend. Plus the usual tools like YUM,
> smart, apt4rpm, or fou4s.
>
> BUT: With out a valid customer account you will not have access to the
> current, updated RPM files. That's the service we get paid for (= my
> bread and butter). And a seven (IIRC) years maintained product
> creates
> a huge workload.
>
> If you can not pay for SLES you might consider to use openSUSE. But
> then you have from time to time to comensate money (you saved by not
> paying for SLES) with your time.
>
> You also can not compare the updates provided for openSUSE and SLES as
> Service Packs are limited to SLES.
>
> Lars
> --
> Lars Müller [ˈlaː(r)z ˈmʏlɐ]
> Samba Team
> SuSE Linux, Maxfeldstraße 5, 90409 Nürnberg, Germany
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