From: John Kennedy (jkennedy_at_novell.com)
Date: Sat Feb 10 2007 - 09:47:37 CET
Message-Id: <45CD86B6.607F.00B9.0@novell.com> Date: Sat, 10 Feb 2007 08:47:37 +0000 From: "John Kennedy" <jkennedy@novell.com> Subject: Re: [suse-sles-e] SLES9 is abandoned?
SLES9 has not been abandoned. SP4 is still being developed and is due out later this year.
KDE was not removed. The default is to install GNOME (considering Novell bought Ximian is that a surprise) but you are given a choice at install to default to KDE.
SLES10 is NOT experimental. It is a stable, enterprise OS and worth the upgrade but not required for support.
John
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>>> On Sat, Feb 10, 2007 at 5:29 AM, in message
<02aa01c74cd4$67a7b3d0$6f31a8c0@sjc.exigengroup.com>, "Alexei_Roudnev"
<Alexei_Roudnev@exigengroup.com> wrote:
> What's about SP4 for SLES9?
>
> Looks as Novell moved all efforts to SLES10 (which is still in toddler age,
> and having ZEN /broken YOU service/, no old thread libraries /incompatible
> with old apps/,
> no KDE by default /so KDE is most likely abandoned de facto/, new iSCSI /not
> well tested/, not enough OCFSv2 installation base /bugs very likely/ and so
> on, I don's see, how to run stable production environment:
> - no any (absolutely any) need to use SLES10 if you don't use XEN or some new
> features - SLES9 is much more stable and tested; so why we all are pushed to
> the SLES10 (with a chance that customer wil be kicked out of SuSe at all)?
> - no SP4 for SLES9 (of course you can upgrade by YOU, because YOU do work in
> sles9, but it is not an easy way/. Having in mind that YOU update is pretty
> stable, what's the problem to integrate it into SP4?
>
>
> (To compare - SLES9 SP3 is equivalent of RHEL4 / Ora4.4, which are both 100%
> supported and developed. And it is exactly what productions need - stable and
> well established server OS, not experimental one. Desktop and OpenSoiurce OS
> is another story, and OpenSuSe10.2 / SLED10 are both in the right time and in
> the right place.).
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