From: Marcus Meissner (meissner_at_suse.de)
Date: Thu May 11 2006 - 11:09:48 CEST
Date: Thu, 11 May 2006 11:09:48 +0200 From: Marcus Meissner <meissner@suse.de> Message-ID: <20060511090948.GA6937@suse.de> Subject: Re: [suse-sles-e] SLES 10 Open Beta - When?
> Yes, to some degree.
>
> But how many users still actually have some SCSI-hardware at home (and
> use it)?
> Do you have a SAN at home?
> Do you actually have an LTO2-tape library at home?
> SuSE and SLES probably work well for hardware that SuSE uses on a
> day-to-day basis.
>
> The reality is: SuSE10.x will be installed on a lot of system, but only
> a small percentage will resemble the kind of systems SLES10 is bought for.
>
> Yes, it's the responsibility of the hardware-vendor to ensure that SLES
> runs well on their (server-) hardware.
> But it seems nobody does that very rigorously - and the "certification"
> is often only with limited scope (i.e. just one special configuration).
> W2K3 is still the OS that you can trust to run on your server with the
> least problems and where the vendor will put most efforts behind to
> solve problems - simply because W2K3 is the OS drivers are actually
> written and tested for.
I just can add that we have a closed beta community for SLES 10.
Everything else is out of my scope of responsibility anyway.
(I am more responsible for taking care of security ;)
Ciao, Marcus
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