Marcus Meissner wrote
The SLES cycle is not in my area ;)
Too bad :-) If you like, forward my mail to those, whose area it is. Maybe they would consider this idea in their release plans...
In general we plan to have 2 year cycles, but review them together with ISVs and partners.
So with 2 years, it will always be very very short to manage a common upgrade, if SLES and SuSE hosts...
Regarding SUSE Linux with the same codebase... If you find features lacking in SLES but which are in SUSE Linux we definitely want to hear about it, to improve upon our SLES package set.
Ehm, except the few gigabytes of software SuSE has more than SLES? :-) It's just that we run SuSE for our clients and some special servers who serve the diskless clients (by exporting themselves, so they must have the same OS like the clients). And it is nice to have a common code base for desktop clients and servers, so from time to time they can benefit from each other (like exchanging kernels, or having xv on the servers etc. :-)) cu, Frank -- Dipl.-Inform. Frank Steiner Web: http://www.bio.ifi.lmu.de/~steiner/ Lehrstuhl f. Bioinformatik Mail: http://www.bio.ifi.lmu.de/~steiner/m/ LMU, Amalienstr. 17 Phone: +49 89 2180-4049 80333 Muenchen, Germany Fax: +49 89 2180-99-4049 * Rekursion kann man erst verstehen, wenn man Rekursion verstanden hat. *