SUSE Liberty Linux questions

[Hui-Zhi Zhao]

> On Jul 25, 2023, at 17:18, Scott Bahling <sbahling at suse.com> wrote:
> 
> On Tue, 2023-07-25 at 04:30 +0000, Hui-Zhi Zhao wrote:
>> Hi everyone, 
>> 
>> Does anyone know should partners test SUSE Liberty Linux and there’s
>> a YES Certification for it? Is there a Beta program for partners?
>> Also is there a download address for partner? I only a “Request a
>> Demo” button here: https://www.suse.com/products/suse-liberty-linux/
> 
> There is no SUSE beta program or SUSE certifications (hardware or
> otherwise) related to SUSE Liberty. For certified platforms or
> participation in a feature requests and beta program, customers need to
> use SUSE Linux Enterprise products. So far Liberty has been really just
> a SUSE sales tool for customers using RHEL or CentOS and help move them
> to a SUSE customer including migration to SUSE products.
> 
> If that will change in the future is unclear. If/when our plans change
> we will proactively communicate to partners (provided the decision
> makers keep us in the loop :)
There’s an official news says SUSE Preserves Choice in Enterprise Linux 
by Forking RHEL with a $10 Million Investment[1], also Vojtech sent an 
email for more information on 22/Jul[2]. So I think there will have more 
updates later.

[1] Not valid anymore: https://www.suse.com/news/SUSE-Preserves-Choice-in-Enterprise-Linux/
[2] https://mysuse.sharepoint.com/:b:/r/sites/ProductSolutionMarketing305/Shared%20Documents/1_Business-Critical%20Linux/RHEL-compatibleOS/RHEL%20Fork%20Internal%20Q%26A_FINAL.pdf?csf=1&web=1&e=l5JvXp

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Regards,
Hui-Zhi

> 
> -Scott