Novell sees lower profit and revenue

[Lonni J Friedman]

On Mon, 29 Aug 2005, Roger Oberholtzer wrote:
> On Sun, 2005-08-28 at 21:23, Net Llama! wrote:
> > On 08/28/2005 10:57 AM, Bill Campbell wrote:
> > > Novell also appears to be making serious efforts to encourage ISVs,
> > > appliance systems developers, etc. to work with SuSE Linux.  A significant
> > > aspect of this is aggressive pricing for SLES (Suse Linux Enterprise
> > > System) which has much longer support cycles than the standard SuSE Linux
> > > retail packages.  The longer support period makes it feasible to install
> > > commercial systems without having to deal with the Release-of-the-Month
> > > issues.
> >
> > Sure, as long as you're not using reasonably recent hardware.  Then
> > $DEITY help you as you hit every bug that's been fixed in Linus's tree
> > for the past 6+ months.
>
> Six months being younger than the release. SUSE now have the ability to
> get and install what will be the next release of SUSE (currently 10) as
> recent as current CVS, as well as something SUSE are calling 'kernel of
> the day', which allows you to have the most recent kernels for your SUSE
> release, not just the ones that are officially maintained fore the
> release. I do not know if they contain all SUSE fixes. All this is on
> the opensuse site.

Fedora has provided this from day one.  At any rate, SuSE seems to be
rather clueless when it comes to building stable kernels on modern
hardware.  Go ahead and try to install SLES9 (x86) on a dual Opteron
system and enjoy the Oops festival.

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