Re: [suse-sles-e] SLES9 is abandoned?

From: Alexei_Roudnev (Alexei_Roudnev_at_exigengroup.com)
Date: Mon Feb 12 2007 - 18:33:26 CET


Message-ID: <04a701c74ecb$e6f65760$6401a8c0@alexh>
From: "Alexei_Roudnev" <Alexei_Roudnev@exigengroup.com>
Date: Mon, 12 Feb 2007 09:33:26 -0800
Subject: Re: [suse-sles-e] SLES9 is abandoned?

I agree with the term, but then we all wish this _stability_ to be migrated
to the new hardware when it appear.
And to be available on the servers (try to take SLES9 from DELL - you can
not anymore).

>
> Frozen is perhaps a wrong word here. I would call it stable. We are
> not adding new features at this time, and Service Pack 4 likely
> will mostly have Kernel Driver Updates.

The main problem with SLES8 is hardware support (see recent e-mail in Oracle
forum - many people need _exactly_ SLES8 in production, and can not run it
because it was never adopted for the new hardware). We would like to avoid
such situation with SLES9. Having 2 basic versions (stable SLES9 and
bleeding edge SLES10) is not a bad idea - if we are not enfirced to migrate
because _your new servers are not supported_ (what happen with SLES8 when
ET64T platform appear), and if we can select.

Let's see how update management looks like in SLES10 SP1 (it's terrible in
release).

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